• MoveMN's first Livable Lyndale rally 3/2/24



Rally to Save Lyndale's Bike & Bus Lanes


Join us April 12, 2025 - 2-3pm, Lyndale Ave S and 27th



April 11, 2025

Get involved here

Write to project planner Josh Potter, P.E. - josh.potter@hennepin.us
cc Ward 10 City Council Member Aisha Chughtai - ward10@minneapolismn.gov


Every time I go to a street planning meeting, it’s the same: parking vs bike lanes or parking vs bus lanes or parking vs trees.

So many businesses believe they exist at the mercy of parking spots. Remove a parking spot and you’re taking money out of the cash register or out of their neighbor’s pocket.

And they’re not wrong.

If we remove parking spots, we’ll lose some customers. That’s a fact. But if we add transportation options, we are going to gain customers. That’s also a fact.

Because people are not parking spots.

This is not an anti-parking campaign. Frankly, cars are great. They do some amazing things. They’re fast. They’re convenient. They can be terrific. But only if you’re in one.

Once you get out, cars become a liability. They’re big. They take up lots of space. We give cars some of our most valuable land. Cars kill people. And they’re so damn loud. Even when traffic is doing what it’s designed to do, it sucks. Traffic noise on a normal city street makes it less pleasant to sit and enjoy a meal. It’s no fun to walk near traffic. Traffic pushes people out.

Traffic reduces dwell time. Part of the reason we want convenient parking on streets like Lyndale is because they’re not the best places to walk. We’ve got a thin ribbon of concrete to get us from our cars to our destination. We’re walking that line between storefront walls and moving cars. We want to get in and get out. Lyndale has the shopping and the windows, but it’s not the best place for window shopping.

Traffic is not good for business.




Recovery Bike Shop started a block off Lyndale Ave S as Re-Cycle in a little warehouse space behind the CC Club. That is where we wanted to be. This is where the customers come.

It can also be a place where customers dwell.

And here’s the secret agenda: the longer people stay, the more money they spend. Lyndale has the draw. Bike lanes make Lyndale a more pleasant place to dwell.

People like to spend time around bicycles. They don’t like to spend time around traffic.

Cars are a means to an end. They are a tool for solving a problem. But the goal is not a city with neighborhoods and communities dominated by cars. Wide streets and parking lots as far as the eye can see was how we measured progress for a long time. That is not how we want to measure our neighborhoods. We want livable neighborhoods. We want people-first communities. We want healthy neighbors.

When are we going to start building that reality? When are we going to start building that city?

If not here, where? If not now, when? If not us, who?

We want a Livable Lyndale.


Join us Saturday at 2pm on Lyndale and 27th for a Rally to save the bike and bus lanes.










Shared-Use Paths Create Conflicts


Three options have been proposed for Marshall St's reconstruction. One includes what is essentially a wider sidewalk with bicycles allowed (the shared-use path). Shared-use paths create conflicts between pedestrians and riders. This is not transportation-oriented infrastructure. Northeast commuters deserve the one-way bike lane option.











Marshall is Designed for Speeding


The Minneapolis parkways end when they get to Northeast. The Grand Rounds stops at St Anthony Parkway. The River Road doesn't make it through the U of M. Marshall St is Northeast’s river road and our access to the riverfront. It should be our parkway.











Save the Bricks, Save Northeast
(but Kill the Curbs)


After 100 years, the Minneapolis wrecking ball has finally come for the unique streets around Northrup King, Indeed, Centro, Dogwood, and Bauhaus known as the Logan Park Industrial neighborhood (LPI). The city’s current plan calls for the sterilization of these thriving roads. We are calling on the public (that’s you) to ask the City Council and the Mayor to preserve the history and the vibrancy of the streets that have fostered a world-class Arts District.











Central Avenue - Change is Coming!


MNDoT’s 2028 Central Ave redesign will be the most important and most impactful urban works project in Northeast in our lifetimes. It will set the tone for Northeast Minneapolis for the next half century and beyond. We have a chance make Central Avenue a destination worthy of the Arts District, worthy of the great businesses here, worthy of a great city!











Removing the "Bus People" from Nicollet Mall


I’ve met Jacob Frey a couple of times. Seems like a nice guy. But the language on the Mpls website makes it hard to trust his motivations for removing buses from Nicollet Mall downtown as more than capitulation to businesses complaining about “undesirable” people.

The goals are confusing. The plan is ambiguous. And the problem is loosely defined.











Central Avenue is a Hostile Place


Central starts as a traffic firehose that pumps a 55 mph+ divided highway through Columbia Heights into Northeast, spraying suburban commuters into downtown. The speed limit signs do not keep drivers from doing 50 mph in Minneapolis where the municipal speed limit is 20.

Here's how to change it.











Quincy Redevelopment Meeting Recap


What a crowd! Thanks to everyone that came out to save the bricks for Quincy last night. We learned a lot. We talked a lot. I think the group that showed up last night felt that the Quincy we have, works. More than that, it is unique. It makes Quincy and the Arts District stand out. And that fosters artists and draws customers.

It feels like we’re being asked to give that up in exchange for not much.











Save Quincy!


Quincy St NE is the unique brick lined avenue that hosts Indeed, Centro, MN Nice Cream, Earl Giles, and a slew of artist studios.

Slow traffic and lack of sidewalks has actually activated the street making it safe for walkers, artists, and revelers and has helped foster the thriving, walkable artist and commercial district that becomes the heart of Art-a-Whirl every year.

And the city plans to strip it all clean.











Critical Mass Transit


Critical Mass Transit is a tool for shifting mode share away from car traffic now. No additional infrastructure required. CMT uses the group bicycle ride as transportation. All that is needed is a handful of people who want to go to the same place at the same time.











2024 Transportation Summit: Surviving Road Construction


The assessment letters arrived the same day as construction began, the same day the cars stopped coming. Recovery Bike Shop got a bill for $14,000 and we're not even on Lowry. These local businesses need support rather than punishment.











If You Build it, They Will Come


The Northside Greenway has been in the works for more than a decade. The city wants to create a low-stress place for people to walk, bike, and roll. Americans are interested in riding a bike for transportation but are concerned about routes, distances, and traffic. Building bicycle infrastructure has the potential to unlock thousands of riders and reduce traffic burdens on our city.











Keep Quincy Weird


Last month Minneapolis city planners held back-to-back community engagement sessions for the redevelopment of the Logan Park Industrial (LPI) area streets. These are the signature red bricks around Northrup King: Quincy, 14th, etc.

What we said on Monday was activation, walking, vibrancy, character.

What was delivered on Tuesday was parking. Gone are the red bricks. Gone is the pedestrian-shared streets. At risk is the vibrant center of the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District that has fostered so many great businesses.











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2504 Central Ave NE
Minneapolis, MN
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