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• Access Minneapolis Part 1 - In time to pay attention

  Minneapolis is in development of a 10-year transportation plan called “Access Minneapolis.” For those who ride, this is a time to take notice and participate in the discussions. This plan will have great impact on the future alignment of the downtown street system and identifies priorities that will have an [...]
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  Posted: February 27, 2007, 11:17pm EST
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• For Separate and For Equal

  One of the biggest internal dilemmas at motorman is how to balance advocating between the right for bicycles to use all public rights-of-way and the necessity for the construction of bicycle facilities separated from general traffic. Today I learned from a thread on MplsBikeLove where Mn Rando Guy shared the [...]
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  Posted: January 20, 2007, 11:44am EST
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• Riding below zero

  Cold winter weather returned to Minneapolis today! On my ride into work my thermometer on the bicycle computer registered no temp since it was colder than its lower bound. I love this weather because this is what it is supposed to be like in Minnesota in January. For those who [...]
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  Posted: January 16, 2007, 10:27pm EST
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• motormusic 2006

  It is December 30th and this is the day of the year that I let all know what musical artists had a major impact on the past year for me. Below are the major artists that received much play on the ipod. Here are the great acts of motorman 2006 [...]
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  Posted: December 30, 2006, 8:15pm EST
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• Minneapolis will have a new bicycle advocacy organization

  Last Friday the motorhome hosted the first formal discussion to create an independent bicycle advocacy organization for the Minneapolis area. From this discussion we determined most importantly that we need a more formal advocacy organization that is effective and that we need more voices in the discussion. To facilitate these [...]
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  Posted: December 19, 2006, 10:57pm EST
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• NMBT meets with Public Works – Northside bicycle improvements planned

  Staff from Minneapolis Public Works met with the North Minneapolis Bicycle Taskforce (NMBT) to discuss the plan to improve the Northside bicycle facilities. It will begin as soon as possible with the correction signage and lane markings then engagement with property owners that have expressed a hardship. The lane correction [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2006, 11:00am EST
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• New Northside Bike Lanes receive “incomplete” grade during recent review

  This year, the City of Minneapolis added four new on-road bicycle facilities to the Northside. These facilities fill a major gap in the overall city system and result from a coordinated prioritization from the North Minneapolis Bike Taskforce (NMBT). Coupled with Mayor Rybak’s decision to move these projects forward in [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2006, 4:50pm EST
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• Garage Work - Unfortunate gap in time.

  For those interested, I have had to spend the last two months of free time reconstructing my garage. This activity has interfered with my time to write to this site. Rest assured, I have a new post on new bike lanes (complete with pictures), but it will be a few [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2006, 10:37pm EDT
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• Saint Louis Park follows predictable route – makes biking more dangerous

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  On a ride along the 29th Street Greenway (the long way home), I rode through Saint Louis Park. This is a growing first-ring suburb west of Minneapolis. It is home to the 29th Street Greenway and Cedar Lake trail extensions that connects longer regional rail-trails to those within Minneapolis. This [...]
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  Posted: August 13, 2006, 8:19pm EDT
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• Bike Minneapolis Mapped Out

  A colleague again led me to a new website Bikely.com. This is a wiki with google maps that users can trace out their favorite rides. I mapped out my route that I rode in the four-part Bike Minneapolis series. Take a look at the Bikely site and I will attempt to [...]
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  Posted: July 24, 2006, 11:12pm EDT
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• Why I Ride - No Traffic and Cash Money

  A few weeks ago, I was wasting some time with a colleague at work discussing the important issues of the day. During these random vignettes, he told me how awful his commute was that morning. “I could tell it was the beginning of a holiday weekend, the traffic back-up started [...]
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  Posted: July 20, 2006, 9:23pm EDT
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• The army is hopping down the bunny trail

  Minneapolis will soon be known for something new. For most they are cute and cuddly but for others they are simply a menace. Regardless of your position on the matter the proliferation of these creatures will not be sustainable and has to be stopped. For what is becoming a common [...]
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  Posted: June 17, 2006, 11:45am EDT
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• Some travelers who wander are lost.

  Find your way through new territory motorwife and I just returned from traveling, a bonafide out-of-town vacation, complete with airline tickets and hotel reservations. The big package and at the right time for it has been more than four years since we have been on this type of trip and given [...]
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  Posted: June 10, 2006, 12:33pm EDT
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• Bike Minneapolis – the City of Lakes and bikes, but now mind the gaps (Part 4 of 4)

  As I explored in the first three parts of this series, we are pretty fortunate in the City of Lakes. We have miles of bicycle facilities that have translated into the largest bicycle commuter population in the county. In Part 2, I explained that the origins of an independent park [...]
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  Posted: May 23, 2006, 12:10am EDT
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• Bike Minneapolis – On-street and rail-trails lowers the bar for bike commuting (Part 3 of 4)

  Bike month is here again and that means National Bike-to-Work week is upon us. From May 15th to May 19th, join the millions of Americans who are beating the fuel cost crunch, improving their health, and adding to a cleaner environment, by riding their bicycle to work. To celebrate this [...]
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  Posted: May 16, 2006, 12:15am EDT
  by motorman