Policy & Funding
Discover why better policy and investments in transit, walking, biking, and rolling are the best move for Minnesota.
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March 25, 2025
New Policy Analysis Shows State Transportation Departments are Key to Climate Progress and Consumer Savings
With Move Minnesota and our local and national allies, an unprecedented network emerges from behind the scenes to keep momentum going on transportation reform in Minnesota.
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March 4, 2025
Advocates and Elected Champions Celebrate Progress, Commit to Defend Essential State Investments in Public Transit
More than 75 transit riders and elected champions came together in community to celebrate our nation-leading state funding and policy wins for public transit—and to gear up to defend those investments during the 2025 legislative session.
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February 19, 2025
As New Legislative Session Begins, So Do Bipartisan Attacks on Transit Funding
As Minnesota’s 2025 legislative session gets underway, state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are pushing unacceptable anti-transit proposals. It’s frustrating to watch. But as long-time advocates who have seen this playbook before, we are ready for defense.
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January 24, 2025
2025 Legislative Priorities: Continuing the fight for a transportation system that puts people first
In 2025, protecting and expanding the critical transit and climate progress we've made for Minnesota families is more important than ever. This legislative session, we're fighting for new resources and policies to improve transit access, make our communities more affordable and connected, and create a better future for all.
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August 21, 2024
USDOT to America: We Need to Drive Less
This summer, the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) explicitly named the need to meaningfully reduce driving to meet the nation’s climate goals. Move Minnesota joined hundreds of advocates, policy experts, and DOT leadership in Washington D.C. last month to coordinate strategies on how to shift transportation and land use policies to meet this moment.
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August 21, 2024
Charging Up Investments in Cleaner Transit
Taking public transit is always more sustainable than driving alone, but using electric, zero-emissions buses does even more to reduce air pollution and advance health equity. Thanks to federal funding and advocacy from a broad coalition of organizations, Metro Transit has an additional $20 million to grow its fleet of electric buses.
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July 24, 2024
Broad Coalition Builds Momentum that Connects Housing, Transit, Climate, and Land Use
During the 2024 legislative session, Move Minnesota and Move Minnesota Action advocated alongside partners for important land use bills that would make our communities more connected and help ensure ongoing transit investments can have the greatest positive impact for years to come.
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June 28, 2024
Applying our new Driving Down Emissions Law to Rethinking I-94
Our new climate policy win is reshaping the future of transportation in Minnesota. Here's what the Driving Down Emissions law means for highway projects like Rethinking I-94.
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June 28, 2024
How Move Minnesota is Leading the Nation to Curb Climate Pollution from Transportation
For the second year in a row, Minnesota has set a new standard for climate action in the transportation sector. After making headlines across the country in 2023, Minnesota made history again this legislative session by expanding a nation-leading law to curb greenhouse gas emissions from highway projects and setting a clear course to put the policy into action.