Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Minnesota

Minneapolis transit officials cut overnight service on the Green Line, displacing scores of homeless people.

Transit Agency Cuts Service To Curb Homeless in Minneapolis

By Aaron Short | Aug 19, 2019 | 7 Comments

Minneapolis's transit agency has started shutting down the city's only 24-hour rail line for two hours per night in a move designed to scatter the homeless, but one which has had an impact on working class riders who just want to get home.

Drivers Are More Dangerous Near Women Cyclists

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 1, 2019 | 23 Comments

Research finding that drivers pass women more closely may help explain why women express greater fears about cycling.

Mayors Seek Transit Funds To Fight Climate Change

By Aaron Short | Jul 23, 2019 | 3 Comments

A coalition of mayors wants Congress to declare a "Marshall Plan" against climate change by spending on mass transit to curb air pollution in their cities. The mayors of Atlanta, Honolulu, St. Paul, Pittsburgh, and Portland, Ore., implored senators at a climate hearing on Capitol Hill last week to invest in renewable-energy programs in order to create jobs and fund bus and rail systems, with the goal of weening people off gas-polluting vehicles.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown could soon sign a law increasing the density of housing in the state's cities.

TOD-Da! Oregon Blocks Single-Family Zoning

By Aaron Short | Jul 2, 2019 | 8 Comments

The Oregon legislature passed a bill striking low-density zoning in large cities on Sunday, a move that helps create transit-oriented development.

A woman tries to cross a rural highway near Minnesota tribal lands. Photo: Guillermo Narvaez

Native American Pedestrians Have Highest Death Rate

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 20, 2019 | 3 Comments

The roads around reservations are dangerous and offer little accommodation for those on foot. But many native people rely on walking for transportation.

These signs, deslayed at eight intersections in St. Pau used physiological concepts like "social norming" and "implied surveillance" to increase driver yielding at intersections. Photo: @Indy_Austin/Twitter

To Get Drivers to Yield, St. Paul Uses Psych Trick

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 18, 2018 | 90 Comments

A multi-phased experiment in St. Paul increased driver yielding to pedestrians from 32 to more than 70 percent. And it decreased unsafe passing of yielding cars 10 fold.

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