Volunteer Doorknocking
December 13 @ 10:30 am – 1:00 pm
Come doorknock with us in Saint Paul for Twin Cities Boulevard!
Together, we’ll share updates on the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s (MnDOT) Rethinking I-94 project and the upcoming comment period with our neighbors. No doorknocking experience is required. Bring yourself, maybe a friend, and come prepared and dress for the weather.
Training and staff support will be provided, including vegan and gluten-free treats and coffee!
Background
The Twin Cities Boulevard is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to repair the harms of the construction of I-94. The most responsible option for the future of the Rethinking I-94 project is a multi-modal boulevard that returns the surrounding land to neighborhoods and fulfills calls for reparative justice along the corridor.
But MnDOT is deliberately ignoring community support for a boulevard conversion and leaving severe flaws in evaluation criteria unaddressed. MnDOT is recommending eliminating the boulevard-compatible options from consideration, despite immense support in their own community survey and from elected officials advising on the project.
MnDOT will finalize its recommendations, which currently exclude the boulevard options, sometime in the fall. We have until then to save ourselves from 60 more years of a highway that cuts through the Twin Cities and harms the health and livelihood of everyone who neighbors it.