Santa Monica residents fight against affordable housing, the Supreme Court loosens requirements for environmental impact ...

Minnesota’s suburban “donut” has devoured resources, jobs and hospitals — deepening decline in both rural towns and ...

St. Paul may be ready to relax its prohibitions on neighborhood commercial buildings. Here’s how it could get over the finish ...

A tour through several St. Paul neighborhoods, including old school buildings, empty storefronts with unique architecture and ...

Beyond negative impacts on walkability, restrictive commercial zoning inhibits incremental development and raises barriers ...

Updates and analysis from the recent Metro Transit schedule change that replaced the workhorse Route 21 with the B Line Bus ...

In his walking tour of every Minneapolis neighborhood, Max Hailperin details the bridges, architecture and other features of ...

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Aaron retired in 2006 after 33 years as a planner and manager for Metro Transit, where he worked in route and schedule planning, operations, maintenance, transit facilities, light rail and traffic ...

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When I moved to Minneapolis from upstate New York last year, I found myself puzzled by the layout of the streets and avenues across the city. Why, for example, did every street and avenue in my ...

From the first expression of interest to the actual hauling of passengers, the gestation period for light rail transit in Minneapolis/Saint Paul turned out to be 44 years. When the Twin Cities ...