Tim NelsonThe Minneapolis-based hackers at OMG Transit rebooted their web service last night and are getting tantalizingly close to putting a transportation system in the palm of your hand — or at least on your smart phone. The new, rebuilt web service relies principally on data provided by MetroTransit, one of a fraction of transit agencies Read more →
MPR News Notes on the news from the Twin Cities
Archives for March 2014
Laura YuenThe Metropolitan Council met with focus groups to find out why more people of color aren’t frequenting Twin Cities regional parks. Fear is among the top reasons. Read more →
Hart Van DenburgMotorists will be able to park on both sides of surface streets in St. Paul and Minneapolis starting tomorrow, when the cities lift emergency parking restrictions put in place earlier this month because of excessive snow. There are some exceptions, however. In St. Paul: Despite the ban being lifted, however, some streets remain too narrow Read more →
Curtis GilbertThe Minneapolis Elections Department has come up with a way to speed up its next ranked-choice voting election — and it’s an idea that might be familiar to readers of The Cities. The reason it took two 12-hour days for the city to determine the winner of last year’s mayor’s race was the painstaking approach Read more →
Jon CollinsA conflict broke out in 1975-76 over control of natural foods co-ops that included occupations of stores and violence. Read more →
No one ever said it was a deep tunnel per se, but a group of Minneapolis residents wants to make sure that much is clear to Gov. Mark Dayton. The Kenilworth Preservation Group fired off a letter yesterday to Dayton criticizing what’s been called a “deep shallow tunnel,” an 11th-hour hybrid design concept that the Read more →
Liala HelalMetro Transit is holding a poster contest for one winner to have artwork featured for the Green Line light rail opening day event.
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Matt SepicThe city of St. Paul’s second in command is stepping down to return to the nonprofit sector. Next month Deputy Mayor Paul Williams will take over as CEO of Project for Pride in Living, or PPL, a developer of affordable housing. Williams said the Twin Cities metro remains one of the toughest places in the Read more →
Stuart Chazin is sorry for speaking out of school. He sent me an email yesterday apologizing for this quote that capped my last post about the Southwest light-rail project: “What we all want is the whole thing to die,” he said. At the time, the head of the Kenilworth Preservation Group said he was speaking Read more →
Finally in the long-running debate over Southwest light-rail, there’s something that St. Louis Park and at least some Minneapolis residents can agree on. The people who live in the narrowest pinch point of the Kenilworth Corridor are pleading with Minneapolis city officials to stop pushing for a rerouting of freight traffic. Associations representing townhouses and Read more →