Don’t forget to check out videos from last week’s announcement of the $35 million TIGER Grant for Union Depot on RTube, Ramsey County’s YouTube Channel. You’ll also find videos from several other Ramsey County departments on there. Check ‘em [...]
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The Bike Walk Central Corridor Team has released its draft Bike Walk Central Corridor Action Plan. The plan is scheduled to be heard at City Council on Wednesday, April 21, at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 15 Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul. Written testimony may be sent via email or snail mail to: Emily Goodman
Highlights for week of March 1 from the Met Council: Crews will be pulling cables in the area around Fourth Street that will result in periodic lane closures and temporarily hooded parking meters. A coalition of elected officials and supporters, led by the Washington County Rail Authority, gathered at the Capitol this week in a bipartisan effort to support the Red Rock Corridor, a proposed commuter rail corridor from Saint Paul to Hastings. “Red Rock and this entire corridor is the next great transit opportunity for Minnesota commuters,” said Ramsey [...] Central Corridor station artist's rendering The Metropolitan Council is expected to vote Feb. 24 on adding the three infill stations sought by St. Paul officials and community groups. The meeting agenda will be posted here before the meeting. This was made possible recently when the Federal Transit Administration relaxed its policies for measuring cost-effectiveness and the federal [...] Utility relocation work at Fourth and Robert streets in downtown St. Paul last summer. From the Met Council’s January Making Tracks newsletter: A decades-long dream to link St. Paul and Minneapolis by light rail transit is a step closer to reality with the Obama Administration’s request to fund the Central Corridor LRT Project in the fiscal 2011 [...] High speed rail train. Excerpted from the OnBoard Midwest blog: The Obama Administration has directed planning funds to high-speed rail upgrades along the Mississippi River Route in the first round of investments from the America’s Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The White House approved a total $823 million for the high-speed rail line from Chicago to Saint [...] The Red Rock Corridor Commission Executive Committee Meeting scheduled for Monday, Feb. 8, has been canceled. The next regularly scheduled Red Rock Corridor Commission meeting will be Thursday, Feb. [...] Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Council Participating St. Paul nightspots will validate parking tickets on Friday and Saturday nights through the end of March for the Lowertown Ramp on Jackson Street south of Fourth Street in St. Paul. Read the latest update on project-related parking restrictions, road closures and transit changes here. Click here for an [...] |
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