Posts Tagged ‘Biking’
Traffic calming – potential strategies
There are a lot of traffic calming options out there aimed at improving pedestrian safety. We have a number of options already in use in Uptown, but there are some others that may make sense to try out at some point. Let’s explore and discuss.
A cycle track for Lake Street?
While no proposal currently exists to bring a cycle track to Lake Street in Uptown, I think the community, City, and County should serious consider one. Lake Street, especially west of Hennepin to Lake Calhoun, has excessively wide lanes and has room to add one. What the heck is a cycle track? A cycle track [...]
Question of the Week: What bike shop?
With warm temperatures in Uptown, where will you take your bike to get fixed or search out some new wheels?
Bryant Avenue Bikeway update 9/30/11
Today, the bike symbols went down and long green bands were painted along sections of Bryant Avenue between 50th Street and Lake Street, primarily between 36th Street and 46th Street. The bike symbols look a lot like those speed boosters from Sonic the Hedgehog.
Bryant Avenue bike boulevard opening soon
The Bryant Avenue Bike Boulevard had its official ribbon cutting on Thursday, September 22nd. Its completion was nearly done but not all of the pavement markings and most of the route’s signs aren’t in place.
We’ve all got wheels (and that’s the problem)
Many of the hot-button political issues recently popping up in this part of the city are the same ones that have kept concerned citizens awake at night since the beginning of time (or at least the temperance movement): bars, liquor stores, and sex shops; drunks, perverts, and the noisy twenty-somethings next door. But in any [...]
Bryant Avenue Bike Boulevard progress
The Bryant Avenue Bike Boulevard project made progress in June by seeing the reconstruction of four intersections to improve safety of crossing several concerning intersections. Take a photo tour.
Nature Valley Grand Prix Uptown recap
A few photographs from last night’s Nature Valley Grand Prix that resulted in a major crash and blitzes of speed.
Man vs. Machine: 2011 Traffic Counts in Uptown
It’s so nerdy even nerds think it’s lame, but let’s celebrate it anyway: 2011 traffic counts are appearing on the City of Minneapolis Transportation Data Management System website! Automated counts have been conducted over the past couple weeks in the Uptown area, and some of the data have begun to pop up on the TCDS [...]



