After as little as three inches of snowfall, St. Paul usually calls a snow emergency, setting into effect a 96-hour chain of procedures that begins at 9 p.m. of the first day with a heavy focus on plowing major arterial and collector streets. That gives residents all night to figure out where to store their cars before plows hit residential side streets the next morning. This winter, however, .
Off-street, separated bikeways have drawn their share of fans and critics in St. Paul, nowhere more so than along Summit Avenue, where the city plans a 4.7-mile regional trail level with the sidewalk and protected from cars by curbs and parking. The city’s recently-updated draft Bicycle Plan calls for more of the same along many of St. Paul’s busiest streets. The bike plan, now before the St. .
It’s taken more than two months of overtime work on Saturdays to get it done, but St. Paul Public Works has patched potholes on all of St. Paul’s streets before the season’s first major snowfall. “We did go up and down every street in the city as part of this route-patching, which I don’t know that we’ve ever done,” said St. Paul Public Works Director Sean Kershaw on Thursday. “It was a big .