New Coalition Launched Opposing Urban Highway Rebuild and Expansion
We are excited to announce a new coalition tasked with co-creating a positive, community-centered vision for a future without urban highways in the state of Minnesota.
We are excited to announce a new coalition tasked with co-creating a positive, community-centered vision for a future without urban highways in the state of Minnesota.
We invite you to join us in generosity and community support as we kick off our summer giving campaign. We have many exciting events and progress toward more equitable transportation in the Twin Cities, but we need your help!
As the year draws to a close, we are taking a moment to reflect on the remarkable journey we’ve been on in 2023. It has been a year of challenges, triumphs, and, most importantly, progress in our mission to make our streets places where people can easily and comfortably walk, bike, roll, and use public transit.
Despite years of support from the Near North Community, the Minnesota Department of Transportation and SRF Consulting Group, Inc. decided not to select BIPOC-led, youth-run Green Garden Bakery for the Olson Memorial Study Community Connectors program.
In response to community pressure, a legislative directive to address Minneapolis municipal sidewalk plowing and ice removal passed unanimously through Minneapolis City Council in late February. City Council will act on the directive and report back in June.
Earlier this month, we announced that our campaign to transform Lyndale Ave S using a 4-3 safety treatment was successful. We have heard that Hennepin County plans to carry out this conversion sometime next year. Yet, we do not have an official start date or timeline for the project.
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