Transportation

Some things never change at the Minnesota State Fair. The livestock and horticulture exhibits, the dairy queens sculpted in butter, the Old Mill water ride – all link us to the past and the comforting continuity of life in the Gopher State. MORE »

This September, Minneapolis and St. Paul will boast the largest public bike-sharing program in the nation — for four days. Could the convention’s free bikes be a preview of public bicycle-sharing in the Twin Cities? MORE »

Access to the American Dream has always been the great promise of suburban development. By settling in the outer reaches of the metro area (this once meant Como Park, then Roseville, now Hugo), a family can own a relatively sprawling lawn and a relatively sizable house for a lot less than the same setup would cost on, say, Summit Hill or Lowry Hill. But there has always been a hidden cost to suburban living: transportation. The Chicago-based Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) has created a new set of maps that visually illustrate how recent years’ rising fuel prices have affected the cost of living—and how suburbanites are feeling the worst pain. MORE »

While passenger rail promoters envision sleek trains linking major U.S cities at greater than 100 miles per hour, folks in south central Minnesota are hoping for a more modest version of high-speed rail: freight service at the breathtaking pace of 25 m.p.h. MORE »