Reasons for optimism over new transit plan for St. Paul's W. 7th St.

Reasons for optimism over new transit plan for St. Paul's W. 7th St.

Frankly, I’m a bit tired of writing about transit planning on West 7th Street in St. Paul. The saga seems never-ending. An idea for a bus rapid transit (BRT) line along this street was first pitched in 1989 and funded in 2000 before running into neighborhood and/or bureaucratic opposition and dying on the vine.  A similar thing happened again in 2015 with Metro Transit’s proposed B Line arterial BRT, which could have been up and running almost a…