Bill Lindeke
MinnPost
Saint Paul, MN, United States
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Metro Transit’s ‘Better Bus’ changes add up to a big improvement
So far, the Better Bus team has taken three core city routes and eliminated dozens of stops from each, boosting reliability and speed. → Read More
One Centuries-Old Trick Can Solve Your City’s Problems
Does YOUR city have problems? Learn how to solve them with one WEIRD, simple trick! → Read More
With effects of COVID-19, Twin Cities face uphill battle to balance the books
“It’s a big deal,” said Amy Brendmoen, St. Paul City Council president. “We’re bracing for it both in 2020, with a revision of what we imagined this year was going to look like, and also looking down the pike at 2021 ... with a different landscape and different ability to generate revenue.” → Read More
Bde Maka Ska area ‘conservation district’ proposal allowed to move forward
On a 5-3 vote, the Heritage Preservation Commission (HPC) gave the budding district the go-ahead Tuesday to receive further study and potential design guidelines that could shape future development in the 3.2 acre area. → Read More
Amid a national tidying trend, new interest in micro apartments
It’s not just stuff. For some people, homes themselves are becoming simpler and smaller. → Read More
Hennepin Avenue: The Street We Love to Hate
What’s wrong with Hennepin Avenue? With a $20 million overhaul in the works, stakeholders look to change the face of downtown. But what if Hennepin doesn't need fixing? → Read More
How one St. Paul community is using an equity scorecard to direct neighborhood change
Even today, the vacant lots on St. Paul’s West Side are incongruous. Acres of empty land sit a block from the Mississippi River. An abandoned strip mall falls apart over a decade. Overgrown fields of buckthorn lie in downtown’s shadow, not half a mile from City Hall, waiting for something to happen. → Read More
The Frogtown Neighborhood Association has launched an ambitious plan to democratize planning. Through cartoons
Caty Royce’s first reaction when she heard about the required “small area plan” for her Frogtown neighborhood was an exasperated sigh.“Why do some stupid document for the city?” Royce, who heads the Frogtown Neighborhood Association, (FNA) asked me. → Read More
Minneapolis Transportation During the Super Bowl: What You Need to Know
What streets are closed? How do I get to the stadium on game day? Is Uber going to be surging? We have the answers for both locals and visitors. → Read More
twin city sidewalks: The Everday Surrealism of Automobile Violence
Over the eleven years since I've been writing about street design and every day life in the Twin Cities I have heard lots of crazy things. S... → Read More
Bike parking: How can something so simple go so wrong?
Some do it right: Nobody’s racks are more impressive than the ones at Surly, the giant “destination brewery” that opened up over a year ago right along a well-used bike path. → Read More
The world’s first full-fledged 'water bar' is about to open in Minneapolis
It's the culmination of a team of Minneapolis artists who specialize in social practice and community-engagement art, and the idea is to start calling attention to the importance of communal water systems. → Read More
Public urban saunas offer a double liberation from cramped Minnesota winters
“You never imagine being in your swimsuit in the middle of downtown Minneapolis in the middle of winter,” a young woman named Shelby told me last weekend.People, especially Finns, have long maintained that saunas hold secrets to wintertime sanity. → Read More
Three ways of looking at the Twinkle Train
Every year Metro Transit decorates a bus and a train car with holiday lights, using some basic decor. Seemingly mundane details like these can be a key to building a transit-centered city. → Read More
St. Paul’s libertarian alleys raise questions of basic civics
Today, especially on the issue of garbage collection, the environmental benefits of organizing the city’s haulers might finally be changing the conversation. → Read More
Can cities do anything about climate change, or do we have to wait for an international pact?
It’s no surprise that Minneapolis was the first Minnesota city to sign up for the Compact of Mayors, because the model mirrors what the city has already been doing for years. → Read More
The white elephant in the room — what to do with an old big-box store?
Aging big-box stores present a reuse and rehab conundrum. But in Cottage Grove and Minneapolis, after years of struggle and blight, maybe some progress is under way. → Read More
As St. Paul’s waste steam becomes an ephemeral canvas, it sheds light on energy
Maybe, as the colorful plume shimmies through the night, a few shivering St. Paulites might connect their heat with the giant radiator on the bluff downtown. → Read More