Open Streets, the re-purposing of long stretches of corridors ordinarily used for vehicular traffic, is coming to the northside in May this year. Over the last two years north Minneapolis has done the event on Lowry, but this year we will have an additional festival in the late spring. The most likely route will be along Humboldt and/or Irving Avenues along the proposed greenway routes, between Plymouth and 45th.
The possibilities for the north/south bike corridor range from simply adding some bike corridor striping similar to Bryant Avenue South, all the way to removing vehicular traffic entirely a la Milwaukee Avenue. When people think of a full-scale greenway right outside their own front door, the first thing that often comes to mind is...
