City supports funds for future Victoria Street trail project

BY NOELLE OLSON EDITOR

Ramsey County intends to submit a federal regional solicitation application requesting funds for the Victoria Street Trail project. To submit the application, the county needs a resolution from the cities of Shoreview and Roseville in supporting the application and committing to the local cost share.

“Ramsey County is planning to submit for a Safe Routes to School category this summer to help fund the project that would have construction in the 2028-‘29 timeframe,” said Tom Wesolowski, city engineer. “The maximum award for that Safe Routes to School is $1 million, and the county is seeking support from the cities to go ahead and include that information in their funding application.”

Wesolowski said the current estimate for the project from the 2022 study is $3 million and the 2028 estimate, considering inflation, is $4 million.

“So, the remaining costs that would have to be spread between Roseville and Shoreview is about $1.5 million,” Wesolowski said. “Shoreview has a little bit shorter section of the trail. So, what they’d be asking Shoreview for funding would be about $600,000 for this project.”

The background on the project is that Ramsey County initiated a Victoria Street trail study in the fall of 2021.

“What they looked at is a trail from Harriet