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Rethinking I-94 — Minneapolis to St. Paul Project updates Official public comment period extended until March 23 The official public comment period has been extended by two weeks. The Scoping Document / Draft Scoping Decision Document (SD/DSD...

Last day for public comment on "Rethinking I-94"!

You have until 1 minute before midnight to make your feelings known about MnDOT excluding freeway removal from consideration,

defining environmental & health harms in ways that ignore tire particle pollution,

pretending ebikes don't exist

etc...

After a decade, it's clear MnDOT didn't 'rethink' Interstate 94 Almost every alternative would cost $2 billion just to rebuild Interstate 94 with little functional improvement after years of talk.

I wrote about the lack of “rethinking” that went into the “rethinking 94” process. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

**RETHINKING I94 MEETING** I-94 neighbors: public comments are open and many are requesting a pause in MnDOT's planning timeline because *how can we focus on a highway when we're under siege?* Need context, have questions? Join us, 6:30 p.m. tomorrow (Feb. 18) at the Merriam Park Library.

Like California, BC has a VKT / VMT reduction target in our climate plan. We need road space reallocation to meet our climate targets. Great article about Traffic Evaporation by @alextburns.bsky.social #climatesky #bcpoli #cleanbc

Opinion: One Less Lane Ought To Fix It — Streetsblog USA Federal inaction means states must lead on reducing emissions — but their reluctance to reallocate road space for cars may doom climate goals.

As progress on climate goals falters, it is time for state transportation leaders to come to terms with an inconvenient truth: climate goals are not feasible without a swift and methodical reallocation of road space away from cars.

50 miles north of Denver! 🌌

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Woke up as a very proud houseplant dad today

Thank you so much Laura!! The feeling is mutual!

A Retrospective on My Time with Our Streets - Our Streets My time at Our Streets originally began as a one-year seed grant focused on building a campaign to activate impacted communities along the Rethinking I-94 project corridor. In the years that followed,...

We are so grateful for Alex's time with us. His work has an immense impact on growing our advocacy.

www.ourstreetsmn.org/2025/06/04/a...

Design Week - Our Streets The Bring Back 6th Chapter of the Minnesota Communities Over Highways Coalition and Toole Design invite residents who live near Olson Memorial Highway to a multi-day design workshop to refine a commun...

Next week is Design Week. If you live near Olson Memorial Highway, don't miss this opportunity to share a meal with fellow community members and shape a collective vision for the corridor's future—one rooted in repair, reconnection, and community ownership.

www.ourstreetsmn.org/event/design...

What a tremendous evening put together by @thewaroncars.bsky.social and @ourstreetsmn.org tonight in Minneapolis. Fantastic panel of Minnesotan leaders discussing how to build campaigns to tear out urban freeways.

Make it a point to listen to the recording when it comes out in the weeks ahead.

Nurah Mohammed Testifying in Support of the Highway Justice Act YouTube video by Our Streets

High school student Nurah Muhammed testified in support of the Highway Justice Act earlier this month, referencing the construction of I-94, and that, "unfortunately, it isn't just history." @mndot.mn.gov

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBvs...

"I am pleased to introduce SF 817. This bill will enhance community engagement and strengthen planning processes to ensure that highway investments are environmentally conscious, fiscally responsible, and reflective of the priorities of local communities." - @omarfatehmn.com

Committee on Transportation - 04/02/25 YouTube video by Minnesota Senate Media Services

Listen to the Senate Transportation Committee hearing of the Highway Justice Act (SF 817) at 3pm:

youtu.be/WB4-X3Ky-Gw

I’m so excited about this news!
As a Senator, Omar Fateh has always fiercely advocated for solutions at the scale and time frame that our communities need. He’s built diverse coalitions and passed progressive policies that others gave up on. I have no doubt that he’d do the same as Mayor

Thanks for sharing! Here’s the video of CM Wonsley’s response & more clips from the meeting ⬇️

Rethinking I-94: MnDOT going out of their way to roadblock an advisory body of local elected officials from voting on resolutions.
www.ourstreetsmn.org/2024/11/12/m...

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Ask MnDOT & I-94 Decision Makers to Support the Twin Cities Boulevard Take action to tell Minnesota Department of Transportation leadership and Rethinking I-94 project decision makers to support the Twin Cities Boulevard. Your message will be sent to MnDOT leadership a...

You can take action here by contacting project decision makers to demand that MnDOT stop shutting community members and their elected officials out of the Rethinking I-94 process 🔽
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

One final Rethinking I-94 PAC meeting clip:
MnDOT Metro District Engineer Khani Sahebjam spoke about the generational mistake that was made by building I-94 through a city and the work underway now to repair that injustice.
Time will tell if these words are accompanied by action.

Rethinking I 94 PAC Meeting 11 08 24 - Mayor Carter YouTube video by Our Streets MPLS

Saint Paul Mayor Melvin Carter was at the Rethinking I-94 PAC meeting, and though he did raise some concerns about traffic, he called on MnDOT to continue to study the at-grade boulevard options. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdoo...

2021 Transportation Summit: Freeway to the Future, or Road to Ruin? YouTube video by Move Minneapolis

A boulevard would INCREASE total trips while reducing car trips.
Engineer Ian Lockwood discussed this during a 2021 presentation via an equation for vibrant cities:
"We want the number of trips of all types to go up, but we want vehicles miles traveled to go down."
youtu.be/51hGZtOBaio?...

Rethinking I 94 PAC Meeting 11 08 24 Commissioner Conley YouTube video by Our Streets MPLS

Hennepin County Commissioner Angela Conley said we get what we build for:
“The idea that the at-grade option is going to displace a bunch of trips all throughout the community, I'm not buying that right now.. these trips exist because the highway is the way it is”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIdU...

Rethinking I 94 PAC Meeting 11 08 24 - Representative Sencer Mura YouTube video by Our Streets MPLS

Thankfully many PAC members weren't buying it.
Rep. Samantha Sencer-Mura:
"I understand that we had a day where there was a bunch of events and a lot of people used the highway.. how do we incentive more people to use public transportation for those types of events?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0dx...

The whole traffic segment felt like a fearmongering tactic to kill momentum for the at-grade boulevard options.
Sloboden wrapped up his presentation by saying "The point of this is to give perspective and a little bit more understanding about the freeway and how important I-94 is to the area."

MnDOT also brought in a Texas-based traffic consultant to talk about "traffic considerations" for Rethinking I-94. Jaimie Sloboden talked a lot about event traffic and made a comparison to Florida and Texas, saying that freeway lanes are needed there for hurricane evacuations. The climate irony 🙃

Council Member Wonsley pushed back on this, and called for community oversight over MnDOT's air quality analysis.

MnDOT Air & Noise Quality Program Supervisor Natalie Ries presented on how MnDOT will evaluate air quality impacts. Despite many community members asking for information about local pollution impacts, Ries said the model they are using doesn't have the capacity to answer that question.