Minneapolis 2nd Ward City Council Member, Cam Gordon, recently blogged about the new Minneapolis Bike Plan which outlines what we have today and where things should head in the future. There are some great ideas in this plan. It looks like some solid work went into putting this together, and I hope the plan is [...]
Two weeks back, I attended a meeting at UROC to discuss the plans to expand the NiceRide bike rental program further into North Minneapolis through the roll-out of additional bike kiosk locations. Here are a few nuggets with commentary. NiceRide is hoping to double in size in 2011, including moving into St. Paul Regarding the [...]
Nice Ride crushed it with their 3-month update blog post. They broke down how things are working at levels well beyond what I’m used to seeing from non-profits. This level of transparency should be applauded. For example, here’s a map they published showing the usage rates of the active 65 kiosks in the network: I [...]
The Other Mike and I biked near and around Lake Pepin two weekend ago. Great riding. That’s me above somewhere in Sconie along the Eastern shore of Lake Pepin. If my memory serves me right, that’s somewhere after Maiden Rock. Here is what we covered over two days: Day 1: We drove to Lake City, [...]
Graham Lampa shot a quick video this morning showing how to check out a NiceRice bike. It took him just over 2 minutes to pay and check out a bike while holding his iPhone. As Graham mentions in the video, he was planning to ride from near Lund’s in Northeast to Al’s Breakfast in Dinkytown. [...]
I’ve had a chance to do some cool bike trips around town lately. 1. Reuben & Melanie organized Tour de Taco, which started at Powderhorn Park and involved stops at Liberty Frozen Custard (Chocolate), Sebastian Joe’s in Linden Hills (Raspberry Chocolate Chip), and Pinedas Tacos. In the end, I went for a burrito rather than [...]
What what I’ve heard, the window on the side of the new Dairy Queen near Minnehaha Park is going to be used as a bike drive thru. As far as I know, this is the first of its kind in Minneapolis. I can imagine this filling up with families in their 6-person bike rentals from [...]
Robin Garwood points out on the Second Ward, Minneapolis blog that Cyclopath is one awesome bike route mapping tool for the Twin Cities. It did a great job mapping my home to work bike commute from the Cooper Neighborhood to Eden Prairie: One common barrier to bike commuting is finding a safe and effective route. [...]
A group of bike commuters in Minneapolis are taking a glass half empty approach to the new crossing of Hiawatha. While the Hiawatha bridge will help bikers avoid 6 lanes of traffic, they’ll now have to deal with 4 lanes of traffic on 28th St withotu traffic signals. More precisely, there is a planned yellow [...]
I turned 33 1/3 today, and decided it’s a good time to reflect back on the first 33 years and four months of my life and what I’ve learned. This was a quick brainstorm, so I may have missed a few things. 1. There are a lot of idiots in the world, but the most [...]
