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Upper Midwest Trip – Day 2 (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN Metro)

Day 2 of the trip involved generally spending time in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and the associated metropolitan area. Some photos and thoughts from the day: Ramp meters on the ramp from Minnesota 100 south to I-494 west. Minneapolis-St. Paul is one of several metropolitan areas that institute the use of ramp meters. The premise of such meters is to limit the amount of merging traffic during peak [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:21:54-05:00April 30th, 2007|Minnesota|6 Comments
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Upper Midwest Trip – Day 1 (Omaha, NE to Minneapolis, MN)

Started the day in west Omaha on U.S. 275 and U.S. 6 (West Dodge Road) and quickly departed for Minneapolis by way of Sioux City, Sioux Falls, Worthington, Albert Lea, and Faribault to the Twin Cities. As written about in a previous post, the West Dodge Road freeway is now wholly complete between U.S. 275 and Interstate 680. The final portion of this project are the twin viaducts carrying U.S. [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:21:55-05:00April 29th, 2007|Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota|5 Comments
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