Archive for category: Bike & Walk
Building Community with Slow Roll Rides
With routes planned around cultural landmarks, ending with a shared meal catered by local restaurants, these relaxed rides allow residents to build community and comfortably experience their neighborhoods by bike.
Here to There Podcast Uses Stories to Explore Transportation in the Twin Cities
A fresh new podcast series from TLC-Smart Trips and Apparatus features stories about what commuting in the Twin Cities is, and what it could be.
Meals on (Two) Wheels
These dedicated volunteers ride their bikes all over the Twin Cities to deliver meals for Open Arms of Minnesota.
New Year, New ZAP Twin Cities
We're bringing the Minneapolis and Saint Paul branches of the ZAP program together under one roof to help get more people biking more often.
Disparities in Pedestrian Fatalities Persist in Minnesota & across U.S.
New research shows people of color and older adults are more likely to be struck and killed by a car while walking, and lower-income areas are correlated with more dangerous streets.
Everybody Has a Right to Walk
An excerpt from America’s Walking Renaissance by Minneapolis-based writer Jay Walljasper offers an important reminder that pervasive racial and socio-economic inequity impacts even the most universal way of getting around.
Changing Street Design Status Quo
Design standards play a big role in determining what our streets look like, and that in turn influences transportation choices and safety. Following a successful push from TLC and allies, new recommended changes should mean more streets designed to work for everyone, not just for cars.
MnDOT Plans for the Future
MnDOT is finalizing three big plans that will influence transportation projects and spending in Minnesota for the next twenty years. Is it business as usual or will we see a greater focus on transit, bicycling, and walking statewide?
How to measure traffic congestion?
New accessibility measures consider the ways expanded transportation options (transit, bicycling, walking, carpooling) and land use decisions (greater density, mix of uses) can achieve the same outcome—getting to destinations—via shorter trips and via modes that use less road capacity.