The Stillwater Avenue bike lanes have risen from the grave.

Three weeks after their temporary death, a divided St. Paul City Council on Wednesday approved bicycle lanes on Stillwater, from McKnight Road to Algonquin Avenue, as well as bikeway connections on Ruth Street, Algonquin Avenue, Case Avenue and Hazel Street.

The bikeway improvements passed 4-3, with council members Russ Stark, Rebecca Noecker, Amy Brendmoen and Dai Thao in support and Dan Bostrom, Jane Prince and Chris Tolbert opposed.

“We went through this a couple weeks ago, and I can honestly say I’m very, very disappointed that my colleagues have brought this back without consulting me on it,” said Bostrom, who represents the neighborhood.

The plan, which failed Aug. 16 on a 3-3 vote with Stark absent, was resubmitted to the council by Noecker over Bostrom’s objections. It calls for bike lanes on either side of Stillwater Avenue, an east-west commuter street south of Beaver Lake, to boost links to existing East Side trails to the north and south.

Noecker said the Aug. 16 discussion had left her with more questions than answers, and she wanted to revisit the project after further study.

“A lot of us left feeling a little bit confused,” she said.

The goal is to complete installation during repaving work scheduled this fall. The lanes would sit on both sides of the avenue, but parking would be removed from the south side of the street.

Pointing to “equity” concerns, Bostrom said the city has installed bike sharrows, or street markings, elsewhere without removing parking.

“There’s … parking on both sides of the street,” he said.

But Brendmoen said Bostrom was misunderstanding the call for equitable spending.“I’ve heard plenty of people begging for this kind of infrastructure investment on the East Side,” she said.