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Causes: Sports, Sports Associations & Training Facilities
Mission: Our streets minneapolis works for a city where biking, walking, and rolling are easy and comfortable for everyone.
Programs: Engagement and advocacy: our streets engaged residents around several street and bikeway projects, including 38th street, 26th and 28th street, hennepin avenue, university ave and 4th street, marshall street, glenwood ave, and washington avenue. We also engaged with hennepin county and the city of minneapolis around new funding for street safety projects.
open streets minneapolis: our streets hosted 6 open streets community events and supported 2 others. An estimated 101,000 came to the events and more than 800 businesses, organizations, and other partners participated.
encouragement: our streets hosted the first-ever minneapolis bike month, an evolution from previous bike weeks. More than 250 business champions helped promote riding on bike to work day, and more than 3,000 people participated in rides and events during the month. We also laid the foundation for two new programs launching in 2018 that will support people biking more.