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We work to make streets places where people can easily and comfortably walk, bike, roll, and use public transit.

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    A new report highlights the enormous community benefits of highway removal and points out major flaws with MnDOT’s evaluation process. Send an email today to ask key project decision-makers to fix the Rethinking I-94 process before it is too late.

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Open Streets

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Explore the future we are working toward.

Check out our current campaigns to improve transportation in the Twin Cities and learn how you can get involved.

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    Bring Back 6th

    It has been remade, many times over. This time, let’s remake it for the people who live here.

  • Aerial shot of a person using a motorized plowing machine to clear snow on the sidewalk.

    Municipal Sidewalk Plowing

    The ability to comfortably walk and roll in our communities should not be seasonal.

  • Young kid on bicycle with helmet, parent and other child on roller skates in the background.

    Streets for People

    Designing streets solely for car traffic harms our communities.

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    Twin Cities Boulevard

    Practical, not radical. Twin Cities Boulevard is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for reparative and environmental justice.

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    State Legislative Priorities

    Let’s pass legislation that advances a people-first transportation system that prioritizes climate, racial, and economic justice.

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    Bicycle Benefits

    Bicycle Benefits is all about promoting active, carbon-free transportation that doesn’t put congestion and parking burdens on local businesses.

We elevate and center community voices and desires, focusing on those who have been most harmed and left out of transportation decisions.

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Our Streets is a thoughtful organization that addresses root causes to create real, sustainable change for our community.

– Sonya Perez-Lauterbach, Near-North Minneapolis Resident

It’s a really exciting opportunity to learn about my city.

– Michelle Kwan, Minneapolis Resident on Open Streets MPLS

All we know is this island surrounded by highways. We would love to reconnect with other communities.

– Abdirizak Bihi, Cedar-Riverside Resident

I do have concerns about the health and well-being of our community around the I-94 corridor.

– Laura Mann Hill, Million Artist Movement

We can learn lessons in one day that we can build into making streets more human every day.

– RT Rybak, Former Minneapolis Mayor on Open Streets MPLS

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We’re dedicated to making streets for people

Our team works hard to create positive visions for a people-centric future that repairs past and present harms caused by unjust transportation decision-making.

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Education

Traffic: “You get what you build for”

Data has shown that expanding highways causes more people to drive, thus worsening traffic congestion. This is called induced demand, and it is why the country’s biggest highways are also the ones jammed with traffic.