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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

  • In Review: A Year of Coalition and Community Building

    This year, Our Streets advanced transportation justice in Minnesota in ways that felt both historic and urgently necessary. Across campaigns, coalitions, classrooms, and corridors, we demonstrated what it means for community members—not agencies, not consultants—to define the future of their neighborhoods.

  • Tackling Transparency and Accountability at the State Level

    The legislation mandates that the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) to publish additional information on all trunk highway projects (with special attention to “major highway projects” costing at least $15M in metropolitan areas or $5M elsewhere) to provide detailed information to the public, including plain language descriptions, timelines, cost data, funding sources, design plans, and historical approval information. 

  • Pass the Community-Preferred Alternative Act

    Under existing regulations, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) has the ultimate authority on the major highway project’s design. The Community Preferred Alternatives Act helps balance state and local decision-making to ensure that local residents and the elected officials who represent them have meaningful advisory roles on projects within their jurisdiction. 

  • Minnesota Must Fix-it-First, Fix-it-Right

    Minnesota’s trunk highway system is a network of state-owned roadways that spans across the state, connecting communities big and small. In these different contexts, state highways take various forms, from Greater Minnesota main streets to suburban arterials to large urban freeways. 

  • Define Highway Purpose to Include All Modes of Transportation

    Minnesota’s trunk highway system is a network of state-owned roadways that spans across the state, connecting communities big and small. In these different contexts, state highways take various forms, from Greater Minnesota main streets to suburban arterials to large urban freeways. 

  • Create a Cumulative Impacts Law for Transportation

    The decisions made on how to implement Minnesota’s greenhouse gas impact assessment for highways will have ramifications across the country; lessons learned from implementation will hold even more weight as states craft similar laws of their own.

  • What Happened at the Latest MnDOT Policy Advisory Committee Meeting?

    There has been increasing pressure from elected officials, members of the Rethinking I-94 PAC, and the public to restore the at-grade options in the next stage of the project process and to fix flaws in the evaluation process and the criteria used to determine which alternatives are studied.

  • Tell MnDOT to Restore the Boulevard and Truly Rethink I-94

    Last week, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) announced their virtual Policy Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting on December 9. Open to the public, this meeting will discuss the upcoming public comment period for the Rethinking I-94 project and will have a portion dedicated to public input. This tight turnaround is not conducive to engaging with the communities impacted most by the highway.

  • Take the Latest MnDOT Olson Memorial Highway Survey

    Last week, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) held two public meetings regarding Olson Memorial Highway. Shortly after, they launched a survey as an engagement tool to understand what improvements community members would like to see for the highway. They have a tight deadline for the survey: it ends Sunday, December 7, at 11:59PM, so…

  • We are not “asking”: reclaiming the “Avenue” in near North Minneapolis

    When we talk about highway justice, we are talking about racial justice at the intersection of economic justice and environmental justice. These struggles are inseparable. To isolate one is to weaken them all. We cannot afford to engage in purity politics that erase class struggle. Nor can we allow our language to be sanitized into abstraction. If we are serious about justice, we must speak the whole truth, especially when it makes people uncomfortable.