Word on the Streets

Lowry Avenue Bridge and Franklin Avenue (between 21st and River) to get bike lanes!

Greetings! My name is Matthew Hendricks, and I’m the chair of the Engineering Committee of the Minneapolis Bicycle Advisory Committee (BAC). I’m a recent transplant to the Seward neighborhood, and for 7 years prior to moving, my family lived in the Cleveland neighborhood of North Minneapolis. I feel very fortunate to be in Minneapolis, where decades of visionary investment in parks, trails, and bike lanes have created a wonderful place to live and bike. In my spare time I enjoy going to nearby parks with my two kids. I also serve on the boards of the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition and Twin Cities Greenways (www.tcgreenways.org), a group that is promoting a new street-to-park conversion Greenway design that is a hybrid of Milwaukee Avenue and the Midtown Greenway.

posted by | June 02, 2011

Advance motorist warning signs in place on Lyndale for Open Streets

We have been working closely with Highway Technologies over the past several months to ensure proper motorist warning and detour signage for Open Streets.

It was a priority to have advance warning signs in place over a week before the event so that motorists traveling on each day of the week would have the opportunity to see the signs. There are multiple signs in place on each side of the street between 22nd Street and 42nd Street.

posted by | June 02, 2011

Why Portland is the #? Cycling City in North America

A special presentation Monday, June 6 at 12:30pm at the Midtown Global Market.

Roger Geller--Portland's long time bicycle coordinator--will be in town presenting on how Portland became a great bicycling city. Join us to learn how we can take their best ideas and bring them to Minneapolis. This event is presented by Bike Walk Twin Cities in collaboration with the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition and the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota.

Roger has been Portland, Oregon's Bicycle Coordinator since 2000 and has been with the city's Bicycle Program since 1994. He has 17 years of experience managing bicycle capital, planning and policy projects. His position requires an in-depth knowledge of design, policy, planning and maintenance relating to bicycle transportation. During his tenure he has contributed to the implementation of hundreds of miles of bikeways, the introduction of many innovations to Portland's streets and planning vocabulary and to the successful evaluation of their effect. Roger has striven to effectively understand and communicate Portland's accomplishments and approach to local, national and international audiences.

Roger has a B.S. in Chemistry and an M.A. in Urban and Environmental Policy, both from Tufts University. He has taught numerous classes, workshops and seminars in bikeway planning, policy and design and has presented often at national and local conferences. He recently toured Canadian cities as part of a State Department Invited Scholar program and Australian cities as an invited keynote speaker at that country's national bicycle conference. He recently finished advising a multi-city effort to develop a comprehensive national urban bicycling design guide.