Tag Archives: livability

Highway 280 at Broadway, showing its last traffic signal, which MnDOT would like to remove in 2024. On the right, you can see the sound wall that now blocks what used to be a signalized crossing from Walnut Avenue in Lauderdale. (Composite photo by the author.)

Highway 280: Put It Back the Way It Was

Pat Thompson • June 16, 2021

Highway 280 was transformed into a freeway in the wake of the I-35W bridge collapse in 2007. Now MnDOT is making it bigger and faster, even though the reason for the upgrade has long since disappeared.

Here to There Podcast Episode 4: LIVABILITY | aging in place

Leili Fatehi • June 15, 2017

Hope everyone enjoyed the first three episodes of the Here to There podcast last week. This week’s new episode asks the question: what do we need to not just live but to be truly alive? It’s more than just a stable 9-to-5. Quality of life is effected by our ability to safely, affordably, and conveniently access […]

The empty land where the Ford Plant once stood in St. Paul as seen in this aerial photo taken on Friday, June 20, 2014. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin)

In Defense of Livability on Cretin Avenue

Tim Iverson • December 12, 2016

As the public forums churn on to test visions of how the former Ford Plant property might be developed, I find little evidence of complementary planning to alleviate the impact on the communities surrounding the Ford site. At a recent gathering, participants questioned and clucked about the ingenious, elegant, sustainable, and green options envisioned in […]