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.

Rough animation for the METRO I Line BRT concept

This advert is for a purely theoretical bus rapid transit line and is not part of any official plans.

Adapted Logo Credit: Metro Transit

As an (almost) lifelong Minnesotan and a train enthusiast, I have had a goal to ride the Northstar Commuter Service since before it even opened 14 years ago. As a child living in the southwest metro, I found it hard to justify making a trip, and while the reasons changed, the end result stayed the same: My train ride would need to wait.

The most recent hangup was the old service schedule. With only two round trips a day — two morning southbound and two evening northbound — I would need to spend the night in Big Lake or bike back to Anoka and catch a bus in order to make it work. With the reintroduction of two more round trips per day — a northbound and southbound each in the morning and evening — this can now be accomplished in about an hour and a half.

So, on Monday, October 2, I took the day off to finally cross this goal off my list — along with a few other, less important things.

Find the full transcript on our website.

Video originally appeared on Ian Gaida's YouTube channel.

Grant Lightningburg recorded the last part of the ride to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival in September 2022. Read the full post: https://streets.mn/2023/09/13/biking-to-the-renaissance-festival/

Last year HOURCAR launched a new service called Evie, an all-electric, free-floating carshare service. While many publications had written articles about the service, including some excellent reporting here on Streets.mn, there weren’t any videos online depicting actual usage of the service. So I decided to fill this gap with my own test-drive and review.

This was back in September 2022, and a few things have changed since then. First, Evie has expanded their fleet with over 20 Nissan Leaf Plus vehicles. Second, thanks to the Disadvantaged Communities Carshare Act (SF 671), which was signed into law and took effect July 1st, Evie rentals are no longer subject to the 9.2% car rental tax.

Lastly, at the time this video was filmed I owned 1 car and 1 bike. I’m proud to report that I now own 0 cars and 4 bikes, including a Brompton which I use frequently to get to and from Evie rentals.

If you haven’t yet taken a spin in an Evie, I hope this video provides all the info you need to get out and try one for yourself!

Find the full transcript on our website.