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Central Corridor Update

Photo coutesy of Metropolitan Council/Contractor crews install a new water main, sanitary sewer services and storm sewer on Fourth Street between Robert and Jackson streets in downtown St. Paul.

ALERT: Construction crews start sidewalk reconstruction along Fourth the week of Aug. 30; watch for marked pedestrian detours. See text below for more details about [...]

Speaker of the House tours Union Depot

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks after a tour of Ramsey County's Union Depot on Saturday while Commissioners Jim McDonough and Rafael Ortega and Congressman Jim Oberstar look on.

‘The Dirt Will Fly’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi toured Ramsey County’s Union Depot in St. Paul this morning, along with members of the Ramsey County board, House [...]

Union Depot Renovations in 3D

No need for 3D glasses — our artists have done the work for you. Here is a new animated look at how plans are progressing for Ramsey County’s renovation of Union Depot in downtown St. Paul. The new Union Depot Multimodal Transit Hub will reopen for business in late 2012, with service by Amtrak, Greyhound, Jefferson [...]

Central Corridor Heavy Construction to Start

Utility relocation work at Fourth and Robert streets in downtown St. Paul last summer.

From the Met Council:

Shovels will start digging for the Central Corridor LRT line in August east of the Capitol where work will begin on Robert and 12th streets north of Interstate 94, the Central Corridor Project Office said today. Utility relocations in [...]

Central Corridor Project Update

Highlights for week of March 15

Fourth Street and all sidewalks and crosswalks will be reopened for one day on Wednesday March 17 to accommodate the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Road and crosswalk closures change on March 18. – NEW
Fourth between Wall and Sibley remains reduced to one lane westbound; watch for lane shifts.
Fourth between Sibley and [...]

March 23 DBE Mixer at Union Depot

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Central Corridor Project Update

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.
Sidewalk on the northeast corner of Wall and Fourth reopens.
South and east crosswalk at Wacouta and Fourth remains closed. Alternate routes are crosswalks [...]

Central Corridor LRT Project included in president’s budget

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 [...]

Central Corridor Update: Free Lowertown Parking

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 [...]

Audio Tour of Union Depot

Union Depot headhouse contruction 1919, courtesy Minnesota Historical Society

To hear a Minnesota Public Radio story about the Union Depot reconstruction project and to see photos of the historic building taken by reporter Tom Crann, click here.

The piece features Ramsey County Commissioner Jim McDonough, Chair of the Ramsey County Regional Rail Authority. It was originally broadcast [...]