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Are you concerned about an impending trip? Let your favorite astrologer guide you with your weekly transportation horoscope, based on your Transportation Zodiac sign. Consult the chart above to find your sign. Finding your Transportation Zodiac sign is the first step toward understanding your personality, your relationships and even your destiny! Aries: You’ve been riding high but you might come back down to earth.

What would change in your life if driving wasn’t an option? That is the question posed by Week Without Driving, an annual campaign — running Thursday, October 1 to Thursday, October 8 in 2026 — that aims to help those of us who do own a car interrogate our transportation habits. And learn to practice new ones.

Emmett and Evan from The House of Transit lay out an ambitious expansion concept for the Minneapolis-St Paul METRO system! Video available on YouTube and PeerTube. Map of Proposed Transit Expansions Sources What’s Minneapolis’ secret to fixing housing?

Last week, I shared the great news that the City of Saint Paul is studying the possibility of rezoning land along a handful of streets served by high-frequency bus routes into the Traditional Neighborhood zoning districts (“T Districts”), which enable and encourage compact, pedestrian-oriented development and a mixture of housing and commercial spaces.

Editor’s note: This is part five of an ongoing series about femme/trans/women (FTW) who are leaders — either quietly or overtly — in transportation issues and advocacy throughout Minnesota. It has been some time since my last “Aunties” article was published. With Operation Metro Surge, changing job duties for my role at BikeMN, and my own personal health journey (I’ll write another article about that someday), I haven’t had the time to devote to wrapping up this final (for now) piece.

Last summer, I published three articles showing how St. Paul’s zoning rules have prohibited neighborhood-scale commercial spaces since 1975, and how this has negatively impacted our city’s livability, walkability, tax base and climate resiliency. In those articles, I asked you to join Sustain Saint Paul in calling on the City to study expanding the use of Traditional Neighborhood zoning.

We’re joined in the studio by Mallory Baches, President of the Congress for the New Urbanism, who was in town to plan their 2027 conference in Minneapolis.

It’s budget season in Saint Paul — and as is so often the case, the City is facing a major budget gap. This year, the Mayor and the Council are reckoning with how best to close a $26 million deficit. The Mayor has proposed permanently closing an East Side library and rec center as a partial solution, setting up a fight with the City Council. Wherever the Mayor and Council ultimately land, it will likely include a combination of cuts to City programs and a property tax increase.

Every day, The Overhead Wire collects national and international news about cities and sends the links to their email list. At the end of the week they post some of the most popular stories to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to Streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the D.C. region. Reform is hard in car oriented cities: Transportation policy change is hard to make in very car oriented environments argues Hamid Iravani in the Journal World Transport Policy in Practice.

Editor’s Note: Max Hailperin is walking each of Minneapolis’ 87 neighborhoods, in alphabetical order. He chronicles his adventures at allofminneapolis.com, where the original version of this article was published July 6, 2026. Every All of Minneapolis walk has some backtracking. This one had nothing but.