The pursuit of happiness is taking a beating this week:

• A Washington County commissioner is unhappy with the condition of bridges in her community.
• The governor and the Legislature are unhappy with each other about state funding for construction projects.
• Some DFL leaders are so unhappy with Transportation Commissioner Carol Molnau that they’re calling for her removal.
• Two losing bidders are more unhappy this week than they were last week and have expressed their additional unhappiness to the state.
• Nick Coleman is unhappy with lots of what MnDOT does; his last two columns on transportation-related unhappiness are here and here.
• Joe Soucheray at the Pioneer Press is unhappy with how the bridge contract was awarded; his two most recent columns are here and here.
• Santiago Calatrava is unhappy that his designs didn’t make the cut, and he’s contacted the governor about it.
• Transportation officials around the country are unhappy about “borderline hysteria” over the condition of bridges.

If you’ve got some transportation-related unhappiness to share (or, for a change of pace, have a link to any sort of happy development), please share below.

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