How do you take something as technical as designing a street layout and make it accessible to the majority of people? MnDOT's Office of Research and Innovation is making it into a tabletop game.

Recorded, edited, and transcribed by Ian R Buck.

Find the full transcript on our website.

I got VERY LUCKY on this January trip aboard Amtrak's train 7, the Empire Builder from Chicago to St. Paul, MN. I was really just hoping to show y'all how this long distance train experience is preferable to the spartan Borealis with its three coaches, but the significances of my portion of this particular trip kept adding up...

Produced by Megandsteve Travel, 2026.

Find the full transcript on our website

What happens when a group of artists notice that drivers are traveling dangerously fast through their neighborhood? They organize and fundraise to paint a huge mural under a bridge, of course!

Recorded, edited, and transcribed by Ian R Buck.

Find the full transcript on our website.

Greyhound won't do at all! If I can't drive to Eau Claire for my daughter's first birthday I'll take the finest ground based transportation option that isn't an intercity coach bus service: Groome Transportation's MSP to Eau Claire shuttle van!

This service is one of a nationwide network of short haul airport to city transportation options that might yield an interesting extension of one's travel around America. For me it's really just a bizarre use of money to try out the way to get across the Wisconsin border to my in-laws when a car isn't an option. It's certainly more pleasant than Greyhound for hardly more cost!

Featured music under free license via YouTube Creator Studio Silence Walk Full by Anders Baldwin, Brady Hoffman, Alice Shelton, Luke Barker, Ruby Terry is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

Handmade, 100%-free of AI & losing faith in Plymouth Click & Ride! Produced by Megandsteve Travel, 2025. Recorded July, 2025.

Find the full transcript on our website.

In spring of 2025, I was going to be moving from the Seward neighborhood of Minneapolis to the Wedge. I wanted to challenge myself to do it all by bike, so I started the lease on my new apartment a month before my old lease expired. Please enjoy this video diary of the whole process!

Find the full video description on our website.

Metro Transit's Gold Line BRT is open & operating from downtown St. Paul to the east metro suburb of Woodbury. I'm headed out to ride this new line with all its dedicated busways constructed within the right-of-way along Interstate 94 & I'm going to do it using mostly public transit! From Plymouth to Minneapolis, crosstown through State Fair traffic & then into downtown St. Paul we'll expose & examine how this ambitious BRT project is operating after its first summer.

Handmade, 100% AI-free & hopeful Metro Transit does something about the infiltrating geese before this line turns out like the Green Line did!

Google Maps image in intro, other map imagery via Metro Transit.

Find the full transcript on our website.

Video originally published on Steve's Wanderlust.

The Metro B Line came with many improvements along the old route 21. Lake St, Lagoon Ave, and Marshall Ave all have bus lanes, there's offboard fare payment, stop consolidation, and a brand new fleet of 60 ft buses. One of the promised improvements, as with the rest of the ABRT lines is a 20-25% reduction in travel times, as a result of these new features. Is this actually the case? Contributors Ian Gaida and Ian R Buck decided to put this to the test, and the result might surprise you.

On October 4 2025, Move Minnesota's Livable Lyndale campaign hosted a "Stroll & Roll" rally to showcase what the experience will be like if Lyndale is reconstructed with a shared use path, as the current county design calls for. Here is a collection of testimonials from people in attendance.

Links and full transcript on our website: https://streets.mn/2025/10/17/how-mixing-bikes-and-pedestrians-on-lyndale-feels/

On April 12 2025, Move Minnesota's Livable Lyndale campaign hosted a rally on the median of Lyndale & 27th. Here is a collection of testimonials from people in attendance.

Links and full transcript on our website: https://streets.mn/2025/05/13/testimonials-from-the-lyndale-median-rally/

Twin Cities urbanists were excited to have Ray Delahanty (content creator CityNerd) in town, so we hosted a party and hundreds of people showed up. Here's a clip of the group ride traveling along the Midtown Greenway.