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Good to know their not wrecking American for car traffic. In my dream world they would either sink American down or bridge it over a pedestrian walkway, and possibly the transitway too. On 98th, I noticed that they mention not building too much because of "possible future interchange reconfigur...

Speaking as a pro-car person in the inner ring suburbs, I support both of these projects even though there of little benefit to me, But it is interesting that the figure I use for the opportunity cost of the bridge to Minnesota- I use 55% of the middle of the estimates, or $343 Million, would pay fo...

Official plans are typically announced in August, and there's not any rumors to that effect either. The most unsurprising rumor is there's going to be a major waterpark expansion next year, considering that 1) They've spent a lot of money to demolish the Imax and presumably the Hydroblaster that are...

The new park map is out, and it doesn't include Hydroblaster.

And another popup project for 2015, at County 86. The local agencies said "forget it" to Mn/DOTS proposal to build a reduced conflict intersection, so they're building an interchange instead. http://www.co.dakota.mn.us/Transportation/RoadStudies/Current/Documents/TH52CSAH86Alternative%20B....

At first I was opposed to this project, but now I kind of am neutral. I'm thinking taking out the free right might lead to backups for right turning traffic, especially at 66th, but I realized on the other hand since they have to rebuild traffic signals from the ground up that means flashing yellow ...

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7022/13523379265_3ed0f33b35.jpg Here's exhibit "B", the Blue Cross / Blue Plus / Delta Dental / CCS Managed Care / et al complex with surface parking in aqua and actual building in blue. The idea that everyone is going to take slow stinky buses to workplaces...

Is it just me or are other initial supporters of the line starting to question the wisdom of proceeding since we apparently can't either move the bike path a block over or buy out the townhouses, and the demands from the parties involved keep getting more expensive and outrageous?

My stepsister was on Renovation Raiders (the doghouse in the kitchen). I wondered where they staging area was.

It's hard to say. Building a new signal from scratch with contractors with all new equipment on suburban stroads can be $150,000-$200,000. But Minneapolis does a lot with city labor and salvaged materials, and have narrower streets and few actuated intersections and we're talking about the increment...

Of note a few projects in the southeast metro 1) The flood mitigation and capacity expansion bridge on what is for the time being MN 101 included a bicycle trail to Flying Cloud Drive. 2) The Bloomington Hyland Park trails are being extended southward to the Bloomington Ferry Bridge and to connect t...

I've heard "we could fix all our structurally deficient bridges for what we're spending on the St. Croix Crossing" before, with no real solid numbers to back them. Do those numbers use Minnesota's 55% share of the current cost estimates ($580-$676.9 millions) and what number are they using...

Without taking a detailed look at traffic counts and such, my gut reaction to "will it work?" is that you'd want the bypass lane on the northeast to keep traffic from backing up on the ramp down to the freeway.

That really is galvanized steel. Mn/DOT changed their standards from painted steel to galvanized steel about 5 years ago. A manager from Iowa, where they had used galvanized steel for years, came up, and Millerbend Mfg out in WInstead, where all of Minnesota's traffic signal steel comes from, opened...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7353/13339448783_0363950ee3.jpg IMG_5126 by North Star Highways , on Flickr Looking north on MN 95, the signals are for the new ramp terminals, the bridge is going to go between them. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7132/13339656544_8a9d175575.jpg IMG_5156 by North Star ...

Well, OK.. Some earlier comments suggested that there was limited interest in road photos here. But I did update my profile even I haven't uploaded last weekends pictures to Flickr yet, so since people seem to be interested I'll post a few photos here now and then.

Summary of what's going on this year: *A contract was let by Wisconsin to grade the new freeway from the bridge touchdown to County E, including the WI 35 bridge. WI 35 is closed and detoured. *The first river pier/tower of the bridge structure on the Minnesota side is being built with a temporary c...

Typical cheap, lame fix because we have no money and I don't like when they take away safety shoulders. The right way would be to build another span for some more general traffic lanes and light rail.

Although I won't be buying an electric car until they match the utility of a gasoline one, if I had one I'd prefer to charge up by the interstate, although preferably by a McDonalds or something. To me the point of interstate travel is to bypass towns like Worthington or Albert Lea, not drive throug...

Much as I'd like to see the Normandale and Popular Bridge intersection rebuilt with more turn lanes- I'm not sure if a double left is needed but a free right in the SE corner would be nice, I don't think it's going to happen. I'll probably be at the meeting on the 27th, but I get the idea it's to fi...