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https://mspsocial.net/@ianrbuck/115850834801712515
#transitapp #mndot #Minnesota #metcouncil #twincities #bus #rail #bike #urbandesign #urbanism #podcast
Theres something peaceful and settling about all-day snowstorms. When leaving is futile, the plan for the day is to curl up at home and watch it all pile up.
Thanks to #MNDot #HennepinCounty #MapleGroveMN and all the folks that will plow and make the region operational again!
The Our Streets crew really packed the room at the MnDOT meeting today. About a hundred people in total, with fifty arriving by bike. Bike parking overflowed, so nearby fences were commandeered for the cause. We had a brief rally outside the building before going inside.
I was one of the first people into the room. One of the MnDOT folks asked me how many people we had - their eyes bulged a bit when I said about a hundred.
MnDOT was very polite and I felt like they heard the words I was speaking, even if they didn't seem to be listening. Our ask is a simple one - don't eliminate the at-grade options for I-94 at this point in the project; advance those options to conduct a more comprehensive study.
With a hundred of us and so few of them, we really just took over the room. I spent more time chatting with other attendees about urbanism. Met a student studying urban design. Met someone else working on designing rail networks in Minnesota. Biked back to Minneapolis with a software engineer I met.
I'll end by paraphrasing one of the best lines from the rally:
People ask where the cars will go. But did MnDOT ask where people would go before it paved over their homes? No! Did MnDOT ask where kids would play? No! Did MnDOT ask where the elderly would walk without endangering their health? No!
Mediterranean restaurant Olive & Lamb opens second Minneapolis location
Mediterranean restaurant Olive & Lamb ju…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood #MediterraneanCuisine #Lamb #LowryandUniversity #Mediterranean #mediterraneancuisine #Mediterraneanrestaurant #MnDOT #northeastMinneapolis #Olive&Lamb #UniversityAve.NE #UniversityofMinnesota
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2352818/mediterranean-restaurant-olive-lamb-opens-second-minneapolis-location/
#Minnesota GO #Transportation Vision Update
Minnesota GO is a long-range vision that guides how we plan for all the ways people and goods move around our state. The Minnesota Department of Transportation ( #MnDOT ) leads this effort, and the vision is for all people and anyone with a role in implementing transportation. This vision was first created in 2011 and looks ahead 50 years to help transportation serve everyone for generations...
We signed an open letter to the Minnesota Department of Transportation and Governor Tim Walz requesting that at-grade options for the "Rethinking i-94" project are reinstated.
We're headquartere not far from the i-94 corridor in Saint Paul. Our entire Twin Cities-based team lives along or near the i-94 corridor in the areas affected by MNDOT's plans. We believe strongly that the at-grade options are the best choice for the communities we're in, as they provide better access to transit and better bikeability along the corridor, while retaining the higher speed artery that those who drive have come to rely on.
This is part of our continuing dedication to be involved with the communities where we work and live.
If you also live in the Twin Cities, please consider reading the letter and learning more about Rethinking i-94, it'll seriously affect the neighborhood cores of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.
https://betterthan94.org/open-letter
#twincities #minnesota #highway #mndot #corporatecitizenship #transit
Do #Highway On-Ramp Meters Actually Work? #Minneapolis Turned Them All Off To Find Out
For about six weeks, the #Minnesota Department of Transportation collected as much data as possible on traffic flow. If you could measure it or record it, they probably did. Then, on October 16, #MnDOT turned up that Christina Aguilera, temporarily switched off all 430 ramp meters, and got back to measuring and recording every variable it could.
The end result: ramp meters work.
https://www.jalopnik.com/1819086/do-highway-on-ramp-meters-work-minneapolis-test-results/
On Tuesday morning, the state’s Department of Transportation (MnDOT) announced Highway 169 has been closed from Le Sueur to Highway 22/Dodd Road in St. Peter. That closure is in addition to the one posted for Highway 99 south of St. Peter to Mankato.
Traffic is being sent to County Roads 8, 20, 5, 40, Highway 99, County Road 13 and Highway 14 as a detour, according to MnDOT officials.
MnDOT Will ‘Play a Bigger Role’ in Light Rail Projects http://dlvr.it/T7gpRp #BreakingNews #lightrailtransit #MetCouncil #MnDOT
This contest has become a fun tradition in our house. Votes close at the end of Sunday, January 28, so get clicking now.
— Read on www.dot.state.mn.us/news/2024/01/23-statewide-nameasnowplow.html
https://joelencioni.com/links/voting-begins-for-mndots-fourth-annual-name-a-snowplow-contest/
On the bad news side of having former #Minnesota governor candidate and director of #MNDOT—fully revealed to have an agency culture of hatred towards us unhoused, see #WallOfForgottenNatives—as #Minneapolis director of Public Works, from Wikipedia:
"During her 2010 primary campaign Kelliher announced several policy and budget initiatives. In July 2010, she proposed that the state of Minnesota should borrow 2 billion dollars over 5 years to stimulate the construction industry in Minnesota"
Minnesota Infrastructure Projects Receive $400 Million in Grants http://dlvr.it/SsRLPv #BreakingNews #gradeseparation #MnDOT
#Minnesota Department of Transportation ombudsman Jim Skoog needs to fess up or figure out the #MNDOT chain of command. Who’s their #encampment people?
office number: 651 366 3534
james.skoog@state.mn.us
Meanwhile #Minneapolis #Public #Housing #Authority (MPHA) hasn't faced so much as a tent on the acres they are withholding from providing stable housing (whether built by them or allowing people to make self-built #houses
And the #Minnesota #Department of #Transportation (#MNDOT) is a prime #displacer right now, hand-in-hand with Frey's goons kicking people off another stretch of South Minneapolis #roadside every other day. #MetroTransit's unused land and their #police are never far away.
That same #MNDoT the #Minnesota department of transportation is probably responsible for displacement happening right now like they have been repeatedly nearly every week targeting mostly #unhoused #Native people:
https://kolektiva.social/@WorkersDefenseAlliance/110551577928284496
And #MNDoT in its zeal to stop the Wall of Forgotten Natives from ever returning to remind that #Native Lives Matter has kept the bike path next to the Little Earth community, named after the Little Earth community, permanently closed.
@Zeke No, this is not until next week! Lots of time for people to help defend/delay, find places to / help move, protest / raise awareness — the works. I was still visiting there a couple hours ago. Squad cars must have been something else, and probably not a camp at all as far as i know— although Parks cops and unknown private parties destroyed one by an empty Taco Bell last night and #MNDOT plans to destroy another camp tomorrow morning.
This in a city that has the infamously murderous MPD not dismantled or defunded one whit except that being a cop is so unpopular they can't recruit; that has a separate Parks Police, Metro Transit police, county sheriff deputies, the school district recruiting ex-cops to replace MPD in schools, the #Minnesota State Police actively involved, #MNDOT bringing their own private contractors to remove unhoused people from unused land, and tons of private security (like CRG: https://unicornriot.ninja/2021/private-mercenary-group-targets-assaults-detains-anti-police-protesters-in-uptown-minneapolis/ )
#MnDOT announces winners of 2023 “Name a #Snowplow” contest
and they are great
- Yer a Blizzard, Harry
- Blizzo
- Clearopathtra
- Better Call Salt
- Han Snowlo
- Blader Tot Hotdish
- Scoop! There it is
- Sleetwood Mac
https://www.dot.state.mn.us/news/2023/02/08-metro-snowplow.html
