2025 State Legislative Priorities

Working-class people should not have to take on debt and purchase a car to simply access their daily needs and efficiently move around their communities. We cannot continue to perpetuate infrastructure that sacrifices the health of many for the convenience of the privileged. Let’s ask our representatives to pass legislation that advances a people-first transportation system that prioritizes climate, racial, and economic justice.

group of Our Streets supporters with Twin Cities Boulevard signs in front of the Capitol

Highway Justice Bill

Urban highway projects have a storied history rooted in systemic racism that continues to harm our communities today, dividing and polluting minority and low-income neighborhoods at disproportionate rates. Living near highways increases the risk of severe health impacts, including asthma, dementia, cancer, and stunted lung growth. Transportation is also the largest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions in Minnesota.

Minnesota’s Highway Justice Act would transform transportation decision-making in the state by prioritizing impacts to our communities. The groundbreaking bill would set requirements for the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) that would give impacted communities more say over major highway projects, strengthen protections in environmental justice communities, and create funding flexibility to improve public transit, biking and pedestrian infrastructure without increasing taxes. This legislation aims to repair generations of harm caused by highway projects in communities of color by ensuring residents have meaningful power in highway projects that impact their lives while funding infrastructure that strengthens rather than divides our communities.

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Previous Legislative Priorities

Check out past legislative accomplishments and progress in putting people first in transportation.