Our Streets

MnDOT Shaping the Future of Olson Memorial Highway (Virtual)
2025-11-14 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Virtual
The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) has started the preliminary design process for Olson Memorial Highway, and they’re looking for community feedback.

Every day, the design of Olson Memorial Highway puts people at risk. Changes are long overdue, and watered-down improvements are unacceptable. Attend this virtual event and share with MnDOT why you’re in support of reconnecting Olson.

Register for this meeting and learn more

The Bring Back 6th campaign aims to meaningfully address this history by co-creating a new vision for Olson Memorial Highway’s land that is directly shaped by surrounding residents. This campaign is a collaborative effort led by Our Streets, in partnership with Harrison Neighborhood Association, Heritage Park Neighborhood Association, Urban Strategies, Phyllis Wheatley Community Center, Green Garden Bakery, Summit Academy OIC, and the MN Lao Assistance Center and other local partners in and around Olson Memorial Highway.

Learn more about Bring Back 6th

Human Toll: Reading & Film Screening
2025-11-16 13:00 - 14:30 | Sumner Library, 611 Van White Memorial Blvd, Minneapolis, MN, 55411, United States
Join us for an artful examination of the lasting impacts of harmful decisions of the past and an exploration of reparative ways to move forward.

José Antonio Zayas Cabán will read his essay from Human Toll, a soon-to-be-released book about the history of the construction of the interstate system. D.A. Bullock will screen interviews with Minneapolis residents impacted by Olson Memorial Highway.

Volunteer Phone/Text Banking
2025-11-17 18:00 - 20:30 | Our Streets Office, 701 N 3rd St, Minneapolis, MN, 55401, United States
Phone/Text bank with us! Make the calls from your couch or join us at our office, where we’ll be calling our supporters to donate for Give to the Max Day. If you’re planning to join us at our office, pizza will be provided! There will be a chance to win some Our Streets prizes, including tote bags and t-shirts.

No experience is required. Bring yourself, your phone, and maybe a buddy—we’ll take care of the rest!

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Bring Back 6th Happy Hour
2025-11-18 18:00 - 19:30 | La Doña Cervecería Brewery, 241 Fremont Ave N, Minneapolis, MN, 55405, United States
Join Harrison Neighborhood Association, Our Streets, and Toole Design to learn about the future of Olson Memorial Highway.

We’ll learn about three new community-led design concepts, where you’ll provide feedback through a variety of activities. Your input will inform what design elements are prioritized as we continue to advocate for a safer Olson Memorial that meets the needs of neighborhood residents. Additionally, you’ll be able to connect with neighbors and write letters to your representatives to support the Bring Back 6th vision over free tacos (first come, first served)!

The Bring Back 6th coalition came out with a new report unveiling three community-led design ideas for Olson Memorial Highway. These concepts emerged from a community-led process with Toole Design Group.

Metro Transit Franklin Avenue Station Open House
2025-12-02 17:00 - 19:00 | Minneapolis American Indian Center, 1530 East Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55404
Metro Transit is planning a major renovation for the METRO Blue Line’s Franklin Avenue Station to address the aging infrastructure and community safety concerns. Do you live, work, or travel in this area? Join Metro Transit for their open house event, where you’ll have the opportunity to review the proposed designs, provide feedback, and have your questions answered by the staff. There will not be a formal presentation, so you’re welcome to come and go as you please.

Can’t make it? Take the Franklin Station Community Survey to provide feedback and share your thoughts on what you’d like to see improved.

94 Stories Time Machine
2025-12-07 14:00 - 17:00 | Springboard for the Arts, 262 University Ave W, Saint Paul, MN, 55103
Join us at Springboard for the Arts for a Saint Paul history variety show! The 94 Stories Time Machine is modeled after similar community history events in North Minneapolis and Cedar-Riverside. Residents from Saint Paul who live near the I-94 corridor will share stories and creative presentations that convey their experience with the built environment of their neighborhoods.

Community history can impact decision makers now and build power for the future. In the fall of 2025, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) continues to engage communities about the Rethinking I-94 project and consider design alternatives for the corridor from the Marion Street exit in St. Paul to Hiawatha Avenue in Minneapolis. Still, many voices have not been heard.

94 Stories is a creative oral history project that seeks to empower communities by gathering stories and sharing community archive resources and techniques. The project will add more community voices to Twin Cities archives for current and future research and advocacy use.

Learn more about 94 Stories

Rethinking I-94 Policy Advisory Committee Meeting
2025-12-09 12:30 - 14:00 | MN
The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is hosting a virtual Political Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting on Rethinking I-94. MnDOT plans to move forward with its political decision to remove the at-grade boulevard options, despite the overwhelming community interest and support to restore the boulevard options.

A portion of the meeting will be dedicated to public input and comment.

Register for the Meeting

Show up and share your story to support Twin Cities Boulevard. You can advocate for the at-grade boulevard options to be restored and ask that MnDOT fix its flawed project evaluation criteria.

Communities that were divided by I-94 deserve the opportunity to create a new future for the corridor. This must include options that don’t rebuild the highway trench. If MnDOT proceeds with this decision, it will remove that option from the communities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

Learn more about Twin Cities Boulevard.

Rethinking I-94 Formal Public Comment In-Person Meeting
2026-01-29 17:30 - 20:30 | Wilder Foundation – Amherst H. Wilder Auditorium, 451 Lexington Pkwy N, Saint Paul, MN, 55104, United States
The next step in MnDOT’s process is a formal public comment period on the Rethinking I-94 Scoping Decision Document. The public comment period will run for 60 days, from January 6th to March 9th, 2026.

While it’s clear that MnDOT has not been genuinely responsive to community members and elected officials, making your voice heard during this period remains critical for several reasons:

Your comment becomes part of the official record, just like the community voices who fought the freeway in the 1960s.

Your comments demonstrate the breadth and depth of community opposition and the desire to continue to study considerations important to you and alternatives that actually address your concerns.

Your comment helps your elected officials advocate for continued study of transformative solutions on your behalf.

Your comment creates accountability by documenting MnDOT’s failures to address your legitimate concerns.

Your comment matters—not because MnDOT has earned trust in this process, but because silence allows them to claim community consent where none exists.

RSVP to Provide Public Comment

Communities that were divided by I-94 deserve the opportunity to create a new future for the corridor. This must include options that don’t rebuild the highway trench. If MnDOT proceeds with this decision, it will remove that option from the communities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

Learn more about Twin Cities Boulevard.

Rethinking I-94 Formal Public Comment Virtual Meeting
2026-02-04 12:00 - 13:30 | MN
The next step in MnDOT’s process is a formal public comment period on the Rethinking I-94 Scoping Decision Document. The public comment period will run for 60 days, from January 6th to March 9th, 2026. Zoom registration to come.

While it’s clear that MnDOT has not been genuinely responsive to community members and elected officials, making your voice heard during this period remains critical for several reasons:

Your comment becomes part of the official record, just like the community voices who fought the freeway in the 1960s.

Your comments demonstrate the breadth and depth of community opposition and the desire to continue to study considerations important to you and alternatives that actually address your concerns.

Your comment helps your elected officials advocate for continued study of transformative solutions on your behalf.

Your comment creates accountability by documenting MnDOT’s failures to address your legitimate concerns.

Your comment matters—not because MnDOT has earned trust in this process, but because silence allows them to claim community consent where none exists.

RSVP to Provide Public Comment

Communities that were divided by I-94 deserve the opportunity to create a new future for the corridor. This must include options that don’t rebuild the highway trench. If MnDOT proceeds with this decision, it will remove that option from the communities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

Learn more about Twin Cities Boulevard.
