• One driver can make a difference: Just ask commuters in the San Francisco area, where part of an interchange collapsed this weekend after a tanker crashed, burned and melted some freeway. Click here for a photo gallery via the L.A. Times, here for a wire story in the Strib. And if you’re one of Roadguy’s Northern California correspondents, click on the comments below and tell us how your Monday goes.
• Speaking of closed roads: Today’s the last day to enjoy Hwy. 36 through North St. Paul; it’ll be closed for four months starting tomorrow. Click here for the Strib’s preview, here for info from MnDOT (including a blurb about tomorrow morning’s ground-breaking ceremony), and here for a Pioneer Press map. And if you’ll be driving through the area tomorrow, please take your camera and give us a report.
• Less jail time for DWI convicts: Is intense intervention a better strategy for Minnesota? A Strib story is here.
• Traffic stops: A federal study looked at how drivers of different races fared when pulled over; click here for an Associated Press story.
• A chance to learn lots: The University of Minnesota is sponsoring a transportation research conference on Tuesday and Wednesday in St. Paul; details are here.
• “Why’s it gotta be so hostile?” The proprietor of the blog Erratica shares his thoughts on the tenor of discourse in Roadguy’s comments section; click here.
• High-powered Morons: “It’s our elected officials who now give us great pause when entering the on-ramp,” says the Washington Post; click here.
• Vehicle as animal cage? A Wyoming woman sees nothing wrong with using a minivan as a home for her goat. Click here.

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