Community Voices: Ramsey County’s “Modern Streetcar” really is LRT

By James Schoettler A recent flyer from Ramsey County now says the West 7th Modern Streetcar is “Planned to be compatible with Green and Blue Lines,…
Ford CP Spur: Opportunity slipping away

By Gregory Struve, PEIn 2017, the City of St. Paul performed a study on the disused Canadian Pacific (CP) Spur from the previous Ford Plant Site, now…
Understanding purpose and need

By James Schoettler, member of Citizen Advocates for Regional Transit (CART)The City of Sauk Centre, pop. 4,500, has a four-lane superhighway. Sauk Centre does not…
How we got here, where we are

Riverview Corridorby James SchoettlerWhile introducing his third wife, a friend of mine commented that he was going to keep doing it until he got it…
CPKCS: A Rail Combination for the Greener Community Good

The proposed merger of Calgary-based Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) with Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS) will be an end-to-end combination connecting CPR’s Prairie Province and Upper…
New Beginnings West 7th’s 400 block evolves amid changing world

By Casey Ek and Jerry RothsteinThe 400 block of West 7th Street is home to a diverse set of businesses that have grown, adapted and unfortunately…
Met Council Climate Action Plan

An initiative to create an internal, agency-wide Climate Action Plan is under way. The plan will unify efforts across all Council divisions to further reduce our…
A Greener St. Paul

Council PerspectivesSt. Paul City Council Member Rebecca Noeckercolumnist When you think of city government, what comes to mind? For most of us, it’s mundane acts of…
West Seventh Street is not a corridor; it’s a neighborhood

The following letter, signed by the board of directors of the West 7th Business Association, was sent on December 8 to St. Paul Mayor Melvin…