One of the ways we make Minneapolis a better place for folks to bike, walk, and roll is by engaging local communities in our advocacy work. With projects across the city, there are plenty of opportunities to lend your voice and get involved.
Our Current Advocacy Projects
Benchmarks
Our Streets Minneapolis created a set of benchmarks that center equity for all transportation projects. These benchmarks include policies around housing, disability rights, racial justice, universal design, and public engagement, among other issue areas. We're organizing for all agencies involved in transportation decision-making affecting our region work together to adopt these benchmarks effective immediately.
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Bring Back 6th
Olson Memorial Highway is one of many urban highways that divides communities, pollutes the environment, and creates a hazardous environment for nearby residents. North Minneapolis deserves better. Our Streets Minneapolis and the Harrison Neighborhood Association are leading a campaign to address the harms of Olson Memorial Highway and reclaim the highway land to reconstruct 6th Avenue N.
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Twin Cities Boulevard
The Twin Cities Boulevard is a growing community vision to replace this section of I-94 with a multi-modal boulevard, return the surrounding land to neighborhoods and fulfill calls for reparative justice along the corridor. The Twin Cities Boulevard will create healthier air, much needed economic opportunity, and accessible, affordable, and sustainable transportation access to places all along the corridor.
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Municipal Sidewalk Plowing
Minneapolis sidewalks are covered with snow and ice for a large part of the year. While our streets are cleared by the City or by the state department of transportation, individual property owners are responsible for clearing sidewalks. This leads to a dramatic fall in accessibility during the winter, especially for people using mobility devices. We're pushing for a City-led sidewalk clearing along high-priority pedestrian streets.
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County Streets for People
Today, many Hennepin County streets in Minneapolis do not reflect the needs and aspirations of those who live, work and play along them. These streets are designed to move cars through them as quickly as possible. This makes it more difficult to access destinations along them by foot, bike, rolling or transit. We are creating a movement to put people first on these County owned streets in Minneapolis.
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Whittier Lyndale Bikeway
In past years, Our Streets Minneapolis has advocated for and organized communities supporting the Whittier Lyndale Bikeway. The bikeway will create a much-needed connection for people who live, work and go to school in these communities. The City moved forward with the design, but as of today the bikeway remains unfinished and the overall street reconstruction has been delayed. We're organizing to get this bikeway back on track.
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Past projects & advocacy wins
- Organized for a 4-3 conversion on County owned street Lyndale Ave S
- Working with the City of Minneapolis to adopt a nation-leading Complete Streets Policy
- Our Bikeways for Everyone campaign, which changed how folks in Minneapolis think about protected bikeways
Advocate for changes on a street near you
At Our Streets Minneapolis we work with our community to select strategic advocacy priorities where we are best suited to make the biggest impact. While we don’t have capacity to advocate for improvements on every street in the city, we work hard to get local policies in place that will help make sure city streets are better places to bike, walk, and roll.
If there is a street you’d like to change, we recommend getting started by taking these steps:
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