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.
Category: Walking
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.
Municipal Shoveling Won’t Solve Winter Walking Woes — But Other City Investments Can
Assigning the city to shovel sidewalks may work in a dense, anonymous metropolis. But here in community-minded St. Paul, we can do better.
Our Little Free Library and Us
The sixth story in our Little Free Library series describes the joy that having a front-yard library has brought to the writer’s family, and to her neighborhood, in St. Paul.
National Links: Walking Helps Us Think
Bringing you news from around the country and the world, National Links this week features the “weird” desert city that will host the World Cup final and weirder purple streetlights.
Book Club: How to Walk
In our very first book club episode, Elissa Schufman and Carolyn Szczpanski discuss How to Walk by Thich Nhat Hanh. It’s a short, approachable book about the practice of mindful walking.
National Links: Not Everyone Can Afford to Ride the Bus
More than half of people with incomes below the federal poverty line can’t afford to access transit, and why jaywalking laws are outdated and unsafe.
The Gateway – St. Paul’s State Trail
Stopping by St. Paul landmarks on the east metro’s 18-mile state trail, our cyclist-writer discovers the beauty of the trail — and what it’s still lacking.
Walk the Talk: Festivals, More Bike Tours and Vision Zero
Streets.mn’s collection of events, community meetings and opportunities for engagement this week features an annual bike tour, Open Streets and your chance to weigh in on Vision Zero.
Little Free Libraries of St. Paul’s North End
Streets.mn asked for stories about Little Free Libraries. I chose to write about some of the libraries in a St. Paul neighborhood I’m less familiar with — the North End.