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Conrad deFiebre

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Wasted time on transit? Think again

By Conrad deFiebre | 07/20/10
For years, transportation improvement advocates (I'm one of 'em) have pointed to the heavy costs of traffic congestion on commuters and businesses.
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Walkable neighborhoods help bring health, wealth, even happiness

By Conrad deFiebre | 07/09/10
If you're a farmer in Watonwan County or an outdoors lover in the Arrowhead, it's probably not walkable at all. You're totally car-dependent.
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You're paying for 'free' parking

By Conrad deFiebre | 06/16/10
Hidden in plain sight is a huge nonuser subsidy for driving, one that researchers say rivals U.S. spending on Medicare and national defense.
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Southwest light-rail route: The wise transit choice may not be the popular one -- yet

By Conrad deFiebre | 10/22/09
There's weeping and gnashing of teeth in some quarters of Minneapolis over an advisory panel's recommendation that the planned Southwest light-rail transit (LRT) line bypass the busy Uptown area in favor of a more direct route to Eden Prairie on exi
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Making bike sharing work in the Twin Cities

By Conrad deFiebre | 09/14/09
Can a single transportation innovation improve public health, the environment, traffic safety and the business climate?
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The cheapest commute is no commute

By Conrad deFiebre | 07/08/09
There are lots of ways to cut the expense of commuting to your job: drive a more fuel-efficient car, live closer to the workplace, adjust your schedule to avoid costly rush-hour congestion, ride transit to eliminate fuel and parking costs, even hype
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It's time for Minnesota to chuck anti-transit ideology

By Conrad deFiebre | 06/05/09
These are tough times for transit bashers. Public transportation's share of the American mobility pie keeps increasing while driving wanes. Conservative Minnesota leaders such as Gov. Tim Pawlenty and St.
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Minnesota's rough road to sound bridges

By Conrad deFiebre | 04/16/09
Thanks to federal largesse and the Legislature's only override of a Tim Pawlenty veto, Minnesota now boasts the most aggressive highway bridge repair and replacement program in the nation.
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Transit: An economic recovery vehicle

By Conrad deFiebre | 02/16/09
Minnesota's public transit system is in so much trouble in these tough economic times that it's starting to adopt disastrous policy prescriptions from right-wing transit haters.
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Crashing to the bottom of the country

By Conrad deFiebre | 12/01/08
We all know that Minnesota is the state where absolutely nothing is allowed, a benighted place in oppressive thrall, to quote a recent online post, to "all this busybody namby-pamby Big Brother regulation."