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Minneapolis Biking receives 7.3 Million Dollars in funding

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

As if biking in Minneapolis wasn’t already awesome with our many lakes and hundreds of miles of trail system in just 40 square miles, there is even more being done to make biking more friendly. As it is now, only 4% of Minneapolis residents commute by bike, and a lot of that is because of the limited access to mail biking thoughroughfares.

If you live in Hale-Paige like I do, you’ve got Portland/Park for north/south and Minnehaha Parkway for east and west, but there really isn’t a way to get to edina or the U of Minnesota. without going on major streets. That’s just one example from one of the 400,000 residents of the actual city of Minneapolis (no…living in the suburbs is not living in Minneapolis).

This project seeks to make biking more friendly, encouraging more people to commute by bike. Through this, we can continue to lead our top-5 healthiest state in the country (since 1990), reduce traffic congestion on busy roads, and reduce our overall fossil fuel consumption.

Here’s an article with more information.

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One Response to “Minneapolis Biking receives 7.3 Million Dollars in funding”

  1. David Samuels, Minnesota Travel Fan! Says:
    December 18th, 2007 at 1:51 am

    I used to commute by bike from St. Louis Park to PLymouth & Lyndale (yeah, sorry, I know that SLP isn’t IN Minneapolis, but I was only five blocks away)!

    I’ve sinced moved to a hilly, and VERY non-bike friendly city overseas, and biking around the Minneapolis Lakes is one of the things I miss the most.

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