Net Density

Net Density is a blog about planning, sustainability, energy and technology from the personal and professional perspective of a planner working and living in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

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Nov 19
Creating Real Transit Improvements in Uptown: Part 1 : The future?...
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Nov 15
Dutch Cabinet Approves Kilometer Tax : The Dutch Cabinet approved legislation Friday that would tax drivers per kilometer driven.  Parliament still needs to pass it before it can become law.  Ownership and sales taxes on autos would be abo...
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Nov 14
Road Trains: The Best of Both Worlds? : The idea of “road trains”, a group of cars using advanced technology to form a caravan of cars driven semi-autonomously, arose from two different sources this week. The (in)famous Antiplanner, Randall...
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Nov 5
1st Ave Bike Lanes Will Get Plastic Bollards : According to some chatter on the bike blogosphere (bikelosphere?), the 1st Avenue bike lanes will be getting (or perhaps have already gotten) orange plastic bollards to more clearly delineate the bike...
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Nov 4
Beautiful Map of Historic Twin Cities Streetcar Lines : What, no Kennilworth alignment? From City of Lakes Urbanism, a link to Brett McKean’s map of the 1933 streetcar routes in Minneapolis and Saint Paul.  We do still have a lot of this infrastructure, it...
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Oct 29
Dakota County Adopts Greenhouse Gas Reduction Target : Lebanon Hills Visitor Center - A LEED Certified Dakota County Building Dakota County is the first county in Minnesota to complete an greenhouse gas emissions inventory for government operations and ad...
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Oct 29
Attend the first Minneapolis Bicycle Advocacy Meeting : From TC Streets For People and Minneapolis Bike Love: There are several transportation advocacy goups in the metro, but one does not yet exist to represent cyclists of Minneapolis....
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