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  • New Report Outlines Initial Community-Led Designs for Olson Memorial Highway Corridor
    A new report from the Bring Back 6th coalition, a group of organizations that have been advocating for the removal of Olson Memorial Highway in North Minneapolis since 2021, unveils three engineered design concepts to consider for the future of the corridor.
    September 17, 2025

  • Don’t Accept Empty Promises: Push for a Pause on the Rethinking I-94 Project

    MnDOT’s response to the dozen of elected officials who’ve asked for a pause on the Rethinking I-94 and Highway 252/I-94 projects acknowledges the harms that communities and advocates have been raising. However, their response is flawed in numerous ways. We don’t need another promise that displacement, health, climate, connectivity, and equity will be considered later. We must pause the Rethinking I-94 and 252/I-94 projects and restore community preferred alternatives, so communities have a real chance to shape the outcomes of these projects.

  • Our Streets Asks Decision-makers to Close the Funding Gap for the Blue Line Extension

    Last week, we joined other transportation organizations in asking Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, and the Chair of the Metropolitan Council Robin Hutcheson to: 1) close the project’s funding gap. We emphasized the need for a strong federal application and to plan ahead to build the extension with anti-displacement protections in place.

  • From Infrastructure to Community Repair: Reflections from the Transformative Infrastructure Retreat

    Infrastructure does not exist in isolation from community life. It determines where people live, the air we breathe, whether people can safely walk to a park, if families can remain in their neighborhoods, how children get to school, and whether communities have access to economic opportunity. Equivolve hosted the Transformative Infrastructure Retreat that connected five teams across the nation that are working to reconnect communities through transformative transportation projects, like our Bring Back 6th initiative.

  • Open Streets Minneapolis™ Cedarfest Returns Sunday, September 13

    The highly anticipated Open Streets Minneapolis™ street festival, which closes city streets to motor vehicle traffic, is returning to Cedar Riverside on Sunday, September 13, 2026. Our Streets is excited to bring back the Open Streets Minneapolis™ Cedarfest event that residents know and love in partnership with the West Bank Business Association.

  • Lyndale Avenue South Embraces the Return of Open Streets MPLS™

    On Sunday, June 7, residents and neighbors across the Twin Cities gathered on Lyndale Avenue South for Open Streets Lyndale. The twenty-block stretch from 22nd Street to 42nd Street came alive—and not because of car traffic. Attendees engaged with Our Streets’ advocacy efforts and shared what transportation issues affect their communities and envisioned what a transportation system built for everyone would look like.

  • Tell MnDOT to Stop Repeating Past Harms of Highway Projects

    For so long, highway projects like I-94 and Highway 252 have divided neighborhoods, displaced families, increased pollution impacts, and prioritized vehicle speed over community well-being. Across the Twin Cities, residents continue to speak out and organize against this legacy of harm. Communities are demanding something different than the continuation of the status quo.

  • State Legislators Ask MnDOT to Pause Two Highway Projects

    State elected officials representing communities in the Twin Cities joined together to formally ask the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) and Governor Walz to pause the Rethinking I-94 and Trunk Highway 252/I-94 projects in a letter, citing concern around disrupted community engagement due to Operation Metro Surge and “federal directives prohibiting consideration of climate impacts, public health, and equity in transportation decision-making fundamentally conflict with Minnesota law and values.”

  • Our Streets Attends NACTO in Minneapolis

    Our Streets’ staff attended NACTO’s 2026 conference from May 12-15. Together, they reflect on the conference plenaries, sessions and “walkshops”, the role art plays in transportation spaces, and inspired by what’s possible when cities prioritize communities over convenience.

  • Help Build a Better Lyndale

    Hennepin County’s latest redesign includes important improvements, including a separated bikeway and additional green space. But it still falls short of delivering the people-first corridor Lyndale deserves. As construction approaches, we are asking decision makers to publicly commit to two common-sense priorities.

  • Original Organizers Bring Open Streets MPLS™ Back to Lyndale Avenue this Sunday

    Open Streets Minneapolis™, the highly-anticipated event series that closes city streets to motor vehicle traffic, will return to Lyndale Avenue this Sunday, June 7, 2026. The founders of Open Streets MPLS™, Our Streets, will close Lyndale Avenue S from W 22nd Street to W 42nd Street to car traffic from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. for Minneapolis residents to enjoy neighborhood businesses and safe biking, walking and rolling. Attendees can get a glimpse of streets as public spaces and the vibrancy of pedestrian-friendly boulevards at the free, family-friendly event.