1st Annual Minneapolis Bike ‘n’ Brew Tour
Whatcha’ doing this Friday night at 5pm? Nothing? Oh, that’s cool. Kinda. Join local urban and transportation celebrity bloggers on the 1st Annual Minneapolis Bike ‘n’ Brew Tour. The route is a simple 8 (eight) miles that start at Harriet Brewing Company at 5pm. The route will then progress up through Northeast as the night goes on. Here’s the line-up: Harriet Brewing … Read more
Ideas for Cities: Development w/o subsidies
The new economy, which I firmly believe we are transitioning into, will require multiple players who can produce small scale, incremental development. This is how urbanism will be accomplished in the next 20 years. This will probably need to happen outside of contemporary channels; such as ignore tradition lending methods, approval through out-dated bureaucratic methods … Read more
Why new buildings typically ignore the street
The River Crossing Apartments in St. Paul are pretty good. It’s probably St. Paul’s largest project in recent memory; and it’s an infill project, dense, nicely landscaped, moderately well designed, connected to transit and near the great biking and walking paths along the Mississippi River. It can be a little bland, but all-in-all, it ain’t … Read more
Back from Vacation: Thoughts on Mackinac Island
Mackinac Island is one of those places where you drive 500 miles one-way to ditch your car for a week. To those unfamiliar, Mackinac Island is a small mass of land with a small town surrounded by Lake Huron. In some ways, it’s like a lot of small, touristy places in the Upper Midwest – … Read more
Speed Limit for Bikes?
Mississippi River Blvd in St. Paul is one of those places where people will drive 10 miles for the specific purpose of running three. I’m lucky enough to live right by it, and have the luxury of using the bike and running paths regularly, but it wasn’t until recent that my eyes caught glimpse of … Read more
Preference Paths: Don’t go where?
I love it when people make their own path! They’re all over the place [and even have a Flickr group dedicated to their existence]. This is along Minnehaha Creek in South Minneapolis. This section of the trail has been closed for the better part of a year for safety reasons because of flood damage. As … Read more
A Ride Through Town: Part 1 of 3
I’ve been accused of being a nerd more than once in my life, and I certainly expect a blow-back after I publicly disclose the following: I bike around town for hours at a time with no preset route to snap photos of various pieces of urbanism in hopes that my photos and observations will have … Read more
A Rail “with” Trail? The Midtown Greenway Streetcar (Work in Progress)
The Midtown Greenway streetcar project might be a great idea – in about 20 years. I’ll further this thesis later, but in the meantime, I’m doing a few expeditions this week along urban bike corridors in Minneapolis / St. Paul to gather some photos, video and a tad of research. I brought my camera along … Read more
