Mailbag: A new highway, and an old one
Posted on July 17th, 2008 – 6:05 AMBy Roadguy
A few of Roadguy’s alert readers are itching to talk about the new Hwy. 212, among them alert reader Brian:
Don’t forget about the west metro! The final leg of the new 212 is open (although the project isn’t finished). Take a drive out west and maybe post few pics on your blog. 
… and alert reader Joe G.:
A new major freeway segment has now been open for three days, and no posts, references, or CrapCam pictures yet? I assumed you’d be all over that…. Being a road geek myself, I just had to drive it on the first day.
I know, we seem to get new freeways only every half-decade around here. But if I told my many bosses that I was going to take a few hours to drive to Chaska to have a look at a road, I’m pretty sure there’d be frowns of disapproval. If some rusty gusset plates turn up in the greater Carver area, however, I’ll be dispatched to the scene immediately and can enjoy 212 along the way.
Meanwhile, alert reader Mike also wants me to fire up my camera — last week he sent me a quick e-mail with the subject line “Something for you to take a picture of”:
If you are heading north on 35W, after Lake Street, a portable light sign is displaying that 35W at 65 is going to be closed. Thought it was interesting to mention a trunk highway that is now gone.
He included a link to this Roadguy post, the one about how Hwy. 65 no longer goes through downtown Minneapolis. There’s still a detached part of 65 south of downtown, between 11th Street and roughly the 24th Street pedestrian bridge, but the only indications that it’s called 65 are on the mile markers. Nobody except MnDOT thinks of it as 65, but here’s one of the signs announcing the closure:
(Added fun: It’ll be shut down this weekend, too.)
If you have thoughts or photos of 212 to share, are losing your mind every time 35W closes, or want Roadguy to take a picture along some other freeway, please make use of the comments below.
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