Bicycling in Minnesota

Bicycling plays an important role in Minnesota's transportation system.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Bicycle Detours

• Highway 61 Bridge in Hastings
• Layfayette Bridge connection to Bruce Vento Trail in Saint Paul
• Loring Park in Minneapolis
• Hiawatha LRT Trail in Minneapolis

MnDOT Research: Multimodal Routing Released (beta version)!

• MnDOT Research Services recently granted funds to GroupLens at the University of Minnesota to research and develop a multi-modal routing tool for Cyclopath.
• You can now request routes that combine bicycling with Metro Transit buses and light rail to meet even more of your transportation needs. Just select the "Use Metro Transit buses when possible" option in the route finder to try it out.
• The Cyclopath team would love to get your feedback on the multimodal routing feature. See how on their wikipage.
• Minnesota Public Radio covered the story in August 2011.
  

 

Mississippi River Trail (MRT)

 

The Mississippi River Trail (MRT) vision is of a bicycle route, largely on the shoulders of low-volume paved roads, offering the safest and best bicycling experience along the length of the Mississippi River, through ten states, from the headwaters at Lake Itasca to the Gulf of Mexico.

 

 

Statewide Bicycle Planning Study

MnDOT is working hard to develop and improve a statewide policy and data plan for bicycling in Minnesota. The project will began in fall of 2011 and will include a new state bicycle map.

 

 

Other MnDOT Projects

Safe Routes To School

• The Safe Routes to School program provides communities with the opportunity to improve the built environment and promote bicycling and walking to school with infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects.

 

The United States Bicycle Route System

• The U.S. Bicycle Route System is a proposed national network of bicycle routes. Mn/DOT has recently begun work on the Minnesota portion of the U.S. Bicycle Route System.

 

 

State and National Bicycling News 

• The year 2010 in sum from the MN State Nonmotorized Transportation Advisory Committee newsletter.
• U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood has taken a strong policy stance on bicycle and pedestrian transportation.
• LaHood posted new study showing job creation is tied to bicycle infrastructure.

• Passage of the Complete Streets Legislation in Minnesota.

• In 2010, Minnesota was ranked the 4th most Bicycle Friendly State in the nation by the League of American Bicyclists. A Bicycle Friendly State "promotes cycling through legislation, policies, programs, and by creating new places to ride, educating motorists and cyclists, and encouraging people to bike for transportation and recreation."
• Unchanging Red Light Rule now law in Minnesota.