One weird trick for building successful mass-transit projects
The Twin Cities has two successful and two unsuccessful recent examples of transit projects. What’s the difference?
Nick Magrino
This unnecessary pedestrian bridge is going to cost $6 million of public money
Is preventing thousands of Vikings fans from touching a Minneapolis street worth the cost?
The Met Council is a great idea, but the full council shouldn’t plan transit
Maybe we shouldn’t have folks planning transit who live in areas that can’t support it in a reasonably effective way.
Minneapolis should skip streetcars
Someone, somewhere, heard about streetcars and that Portland was doing them, and so now we have to also do them. But we don’t!
The political implications of population growth
Because of the way we split things up by population to allocate our representatives, population and population growth matter a lot.
The Minneapolis housing boom, explained
The city’s adding people and apartment buildings — why are the rents so high, and who can afford them?
Move back: A casual guide to regular bus usage
Some tips for riding the bus considerately and efficiently.
Twin Cities, how do we really feel about mass transit?
The Twin Cities: A metropolitan region that certainly values idea of transit — in the abstract.
The four corners of City Center
An in-depth look at this key piece of downtown Minneapolis real-estate, and suggestions for its future.
We need to stop the Southwest Corridor
Yes, let’s make investments in transit. But let’s make the right investments.
If not gentrification, what?
What’s the alternative to gentrification? Continued divestment and segregation? The concentration of poverty and those with little political influence?
