Our Streets seeks an organization experienced in community engagement with deep roots in North Minneapolis to support outreach and co-creation activities in and around the Harrison Neighborhood in Minneapolis. The selected partner will lead and collaborate on various aspects of the Bring Back 6th initiative, with responsibilities grouped into four key categories: Communications, Advocacy, Organizing/Canvassing,…
In 2023, we asked the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) to apply for a Bloomberg Philanthropies asphalt art grant for the Olson Memorial Highway & Van White Boulevard intersection. Although the City of Minneapolis expressed support for asphalt art on Olson, because MnDOT owns the right-of-way, MnDOT needed to approve the project. They failed to…
Pollution reduction. Transit funding without tax increase. Community input on infrastructure. For generations, highway projects have disproportionately impacted low-income neighborhoods and communities of color, creating lasting barriers to opportunity and exposing residents to harmful pollution. We have the opportunity to transform how transportation decisions are made through a comprehensive Highway Justice Act that would establish…
Our Streets is releasing a request for proposals (RFPs) for partners to assist in developing the Bring Back 6th campaign. Review and apply for the following open requests for proposals. Production and Post-Production Services: National Freeway Fighters Summit and Cornel West Rally Visit Our Streets is seeking proposals from qualified filmmakers or production teams to…
Supporters Are Surprised, Questioning Whether MnDOT is to Blame The Friday before Christmas Eve, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) confirmed its plans to eliminate the two at-grade boulevard options from the Rethinking I-94 project despite those options scoring highest in the agency’s own community survey. Our Streets, the transportation organization advocating for this innovative…
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.
How is it possible for MnDOT to use these same metrics to justify removing the boulevard options from further consideration in the Rethinking I-94 process? The truth is that MnDOT is using the same playbook used by departments of transportation across the country to justify the building and expansion of highways.
The agency plans on formally announcing just weeks before the US DOT will announce Reconnecting Communities federal grant recipients. We were alerted by members of the Rethinking I-94 Policy Advisory Committee (PAC) that MnDOT plans to remove the boulevard (called at-grade A & B) project options from further consideration for the project. This decision will…
Our Streets is releasing a request for proposals (RFP) for technical partners to assist in developing the Bring Back 6th community visioning report. Review and apply for the following open requests for proposals. Report Assembly and Street Design Lead Our Streets seeks a technical partner experienced in engineering, people-centered street design, and work within historically…
On Friday, November 8, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) held a virtual meeting of the Rethinking I-94 Policy Advisory Committee (PAC). The PAC is made up of elected officials from the communities that border the Rethinking I-94 project corridor, a 7.5-mile stretch of highway between Minneapolis and downtown Saint Paul that is up for redesign. While…
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