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Together, we’re fighting to make transit, biking, and walking the easiest and best ways to get around in the Twin Cities and across the state.
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August 27, 2024
Move Minnesota’s Executive Director Moving on to New Role—but the Work Continues!
Move Minnesota shared news of the upcoming leadership change with a special announcement from outgoing executive director Sam Rockwell. Plus: an invitation to the farewell celebration happening September 4.
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August 21, 2024
USDOT to America: We Need to Drive Less
This summer, the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) explicitly named the need to meaningfully reduce driving to meet the nation’s climate goals. Move Minnesota joined hundreds of advocates, policy experts, and DOT leadership in Washington D.C. last month to coordinate strategies on how to shift transportation and land use policies to meet this moment.
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August 21, 2024
Charging Up Investments in Cleaner Transit
Taking public transit is always more sustainable than driving alone, but using electric, zero-emissions buses does even more to reduce air pollution and advance health equity. Thanks to federal funding and advocacy from a broad coalition of organizations, Metro Transit has an additional $20 million to grow its fleet of electric buses.
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July 24, 2024
Broad Coalition Builds Momentum that Connects Housing, Transit, Climate, and Land Use
During the 2024 legislative session, Move Minnesota and Move Minnesota Action advocated alongside partners for important land use bills that would make our communities more connected and help ensure ongoing transit investments can have the greatest positive impact for years to come.
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July 19, 2024
Support a Livable Lyndale by Commenting on Hennepin County Designs
From tabling events to neighborhood canvasses, from pedestrian rallies to bike rides, the Livable Lyndale campaign has mobilized hundreds of community members around a street redesign that plans for people, not the past. With the release of Hennepin County’s initial design concepts for the reconstruction of Lyndale Avenue, we know our voices are being heard.
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June 28, 2024
Applying our new Driving Down Emissions Law to Rethinking I-94
Our new climate policy win is reshaping the future of transportation in Minnesota. Here's what the Driving Down Emissions law means for highway projects like Rethinking I-94.
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June 28, 2024
How Move Minnesota is Leading the Nation to Curb Climate Pollution from Transportation
For the second year in a row, Minnesota has set a new standard for climate action in the transportation sector. After making headlines across the country in 2023, Minnesota made history again this legislative session by expanding a nation-leading law to curb greenhouse gas emissions from highway projects and setting a clear course to put the policy into action.
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June 28, 2024
A Photo-Worthy Trip on the New Borealis Train to Chicago
Last month, I took a four-day trip to Chicago with my daughter. We took the Empire Builder Amtrak train there and the brand new Borealis train on the return. The trip itself was a joy and it also provided an opportunity to reflect on the current and potential role of intercity rail in Minnesota and beyond.
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May 31, 2024
Five Successful Approaches to Empower Students to Take Public Transit
Over the past two and a half years, we’ve connected with more than 1,000 students in a variety of ways, from one-to-one conversations, to single classroom sessions to extended engagements over multiple weeks. We’ve learned so much from the students about how they want to receive information and put it into action!
Tell Metro Leaders to Boost the Bus
It’s time to paint more bus lanes and give buses a green light to make Twin Cities bus service quick and convenient. Add your name to show support!
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