A downtown neighborhood group, the CapitolRiver Council, convened a meeting Tuesday on St. Paul's proposed bicycle plan, a sweeping document that proposes major changes to the city's bicycle infrastructure.
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Ken Avidor's drawing of a CapitolRiver Council meeting on the downtown bike plan
Among those changes, the plan calls for 1.7 miles of raised bike paths in a loop, or rectangle, downtown. An initial draft recommended paths along Jackson Street, St. Peter, 10th and Kellogg Boulevard, but the latest draft leaves the exact alignment more up in the air pending further study in 2015.
To be honest, the Scoop was not at Tuesday's neighborhood meeting. However, Lowertown resident and artist Ken Avidor was, and he passed the time sketching what he heard and saw.
Avidor and his wife have long enjoyed getting around the city without a car, no easy feat considering that the metro does not enjoy the same level of transit options as larger communities such as New York and Boston, where it's more common to go car-free.
The St. Paul Planning Commission will host a hearing on the proposed bike plan at 8:30 a.m. Friday in the basement of City Hall. The St. Paul City Council is likely to receive a copy of the plan to vote on in 2015, perhaps as soon as February.
You can read more about the bike plan on the city's website at http://stpaul.gov/bikeplan.
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