Summit Avenue Regional Trail Plan Sports 21st-Century Design
The Summit Avenue Regional Trail Plan’s street design is an elegant solution that could be replicated on other streets.
Category: Infrastructure
Dale Street Reconstruction: How Neighborhood Involvement Is Paying Off
Constructive community engagement with a planned reconstruction of Dale Street in St. Paul offers an encouraging picture for much-needed street safety improvements.
We Need to Be Able to Bike and Walk to NLX Train Stations
For train riders living close to NLX stations, walking or bicycling would be a green alternative to driving—and far more feasible than before.
A Potentially Contentious Summit on Summit Reframes ‘Trees vs. Bikes’
The February 27 public forum on the Summit Avenue Regional Trail Plan provided welcome clarity on the contentious subject of tree removal and bike trails.
Summit Avenue Is Not Cleveland Avenue: Four Reasons Why
The Cleveland Avenue North project, where bicycle lanes required a large loss of trees, has the “Save Summit” group catastrophizing that the same thing will happen on Summit Avenue.
The 2022 Met Council TAB Grants: a Suburban Perspective
An overview of some of the more interesting suburban infrastructure projects awarded grants by the Met Council in 2022, from a pool of an unusually large $355 million.
Bring Back the Historic Character of Summit Avenue
Historically, Summit Avenue was more about socializing than speed, a place to “be seen,” to hang out and to converse. Wouldn’t an upgraded off-road bike trail serve that sense of place?
Ten Reasons to Love the Summit Avenue Draft Plan
The draft for the much-discussed Summit Avenue reconstruction is now 90% complete – so here are ten reasons to love the new bike trail plan.
In the Winter of our Discontent, Hope Springs
As the icy winter lingers, now is a fitting time to reflect on St. Paul’s bicycle infrastructure – in particular, the promising Summit Avenue Regional Trail Plan, now 90% complete.
National Links: Biodiverse Cities and Transit Construction Costs
How can cities be generators, not destroyers, of biodiversity? This and much more answered in this week’s National Links.