Author: Yasmin Hirsi

  • 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.

  • 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.

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