Bill Lindeke
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 11
- Latest publication
- Sep 28, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for MinnPost
- Top 500K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 7, 2026
Latest articles
Trash trucks, mini-trucks and an eyeball truck at the University of Minnesota, but few EVs (opens the original)
Read excerpt
The fall semester at the University of Minnesota kicked off a few weeks ago and I was once again reminded of how the university is like a little city to itself. From my office window on the West Bank, I have the privilege of watching not just the deluge of students, but the constant preparations of the thousands of university workers who maintain the streets, shrubs and public spaces. I want to confess one small fascination: the variety of vehicles that the university sends around campus. There
What should Minneapolis do about Waymo? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I attended a conference last spring in San Francisco. It’s one of America’s unique cities in part because the entire range of American transportation technology is seemingly on display. Visitors can ride everything from cable cars (!) to streetcars from different eras to ferries to a late 20th century subway (with an unusually wide track width). For an urbanist, it’s like a living museum. And of course there are the Waymos, automated driverless taxis milling about the city at all hours of the da
From my New York City rooftop, I watched 9/11 usher in the age of spectacle (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I moved into a loft apartment in Brooklyn in early September 2001, three months after graduating from college in Western Massachusetts. My apartment was in what was then a desolate industrial park, but rent was high enough that I split it with two roommates. For the first 10 days living in New York City, I sent out job and internship applications at a reasonable pace, by mail of course – something straight out of a coming-of-age novel. On that Tuesday, September 11, I had nowhere in particular t
City, county and state pass the buck on responsibility for historic St. Paul bridge (opens the original)
Read excerpt
On Aug. 4, spokespeople from both Ramsey County and the city of St. Paul sent out a news release announcing the closure of the Bruce Vento trail underneath East 7th Street, due to dangerous conditions in an historic bridge. But when fences were put up, it closed off the tunnel providing the only southern access to Swede Hollow Park, a major amenity for the East Side and the only car-free path in and out of downtown St. Paul. According to the release, “next steps and timeline for reopening the tr
Fare compliance is real, but the bigger goal is to change the transit vibe (opens the original)
Read excerpt
If you haven’t been on a Twin Cities light rail train in a few years, you’re not alone. Transit ridership is down over the last five years, still hovering about two-thirds of its pre-COVID peak. There are a lot of interlocking reasons for the decrease, and other U.S. cities have seen greater rebounds. Attracting riders back to the light rail system is a tall order after years of nuisance problems like smoking and disorder. Just like other central public spaces, the transit system bears the brunt
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
Top 500K sites
For MinnPost, the outlet · Measured Aug 1, 2026
Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.