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invincor:
Thank you Froggie. I guessed in advance you'd have the answer. :)
TheHighwayMan394:
$2 million in federal money will go toward the proposed Rondo Land Bridge over I-94 in St. Paul. The cap seems to be the favored route for the state and city in addressing the long-simmering issue regarding I-94 on St. Paul's west side, although some other activist groups around this project have stated a full removal/downgrade is the only option they'll accept.
https://www.twincities.com/2023/02/27/2m-in-federal-funding-granted-to-rondo-community-land-bridge-project-in-st-paul/
Molandfreak:
Hopefully some of that could go towards a partial redesign of the 52/94 interchange again… Or at least signage to direct trucks to 61 instead.
bschultzy:
--- Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on February 27, 2023, 04:43:04 PM ---$2 million in federal money will go toward the proposed Rondo Land Bridge over I-94 in St. Paul. The cap seems to be the favored route for the state and city in addressing the long-simmering issue regarding I-94 on St. Paul's west side, although some other activist groups around this project have stated a full removal/downgrade is the only option they'll accept.
https://www.twincities.com/2023/02/27/2m-in-federal-funding-granted-to-rondo-community-land-bridge-project-in-st-paul/
--- End quote ---
My sense is that some of those groups aren't local to the Rondo neighborhood, and with their broader aim to totally remove I-94 in the core of the metro, their all-or-nothing approach really is doomed to fail. Sure, removing a freeway that harmed (and continues to harm) residents living in its path sounds great, and I wish those harms could be removed. There's just no feasible way to make this work. It would be better to build the land bridge in Rondo and make other similar moves along the route than take a moonshot that's bound to miss. Or invent a time machine that takes you back to the 1940s and get George Herrold's plan to put I-94 on the northern route through St. Paul passed.
TheHighwayMan394:
Work on the US 53 section on the north side of the Twin Ports Interchange project could be significantly delayed after crews accidentally uncovered the remains of an indigenous person. This is not something that will be taken lightly, as the discovery of an indigenous burial ground has set the TH 23 project within a different part of Duluth back for several years (the pandemic has probably also contributed) and it is likely as much time will be taken as needed to determine if this was isolated or a formal burial ground. The article notes no such remains were found when the US 53 viaduct was originally built.
https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/indigenous-remains-found-during-twin-ports-interchange-construction?fbclid=IwAR0Mc6QPVgOolxcx-f3Qbg9-ZrLe7m3gWKf1pKFYI-Frz-JKuNNWQi6XzM0
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