Fresh pavement, two crumbling Mississippi River bridges, “living snow fences” - stimulus in Minnesota starts taking shape
Posted on February 25th, 2009 – 5:01 PMBy James Shiffer
A blizzard is bearing down on us Thursday, but the blizzard of stimulus spending announcements appears to be arriving a day early. Transportation projects in greater Minnesota got campaign-style announcements in a state fly-around tour by Gov. Tim Pawlenty, despite his continued criticism of the stimulus bill. Hennepin County commissioners unveiled their stimulus project wish list on Tuesday, while the city of Minneapolis offered its list last week. The Minnesota Department of Education also predicted the arrival of a needed $1.1 billion in stimulus money.
Here’s a “shovel ready” selection:
Replacement for the closed Lowry Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis: $66.5 million
Rehabilitating the Camden Bridge in Minneapolis: $13.5 million
Renovation of Hwy. 53 north of Duluth: $18 million
Street improvements in St. Peter: $11 million
Repairing flaking bridges over the Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis: $1.5 million
Six “Living snow fence landscaping” projects in Carlton, Morrison and Wright counties: $100,000 to $214,000 each
The complete list of outstate transportation projects is here. Metro projects will be announced in March.
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February 25th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Maybe the Whistleblower can do a story about how the
Pawlenty administration continues to bash the stimulus bill
while Tim’s “Stimulus Czar” lives in Maple Grove where the largest
chunk of Minnesota’s take is earmarked for the Hwy. 610 expansion?
Inquiring minds want to know the level to which their hypocracy goes.
February 27th, 2009 at 6:25 am
Matty, what is wrong with finally finishing a highway that has been under construction since I moved here in 1993?
February 27th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
matty, are you really that stupid? Really?
February 27th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
610 has been “under construction” since at least 1983, presently
putting this section being finished close to 30 years
behind schedule. This is a major artery need and has
been identified as such for decades. With increased
traffic and a several mile detour to go around, this
expansion is badly needed and should have been done
decades ago.
March 1st, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Full disclosure: if you spend any time on the Roadguy blog you know that Matty is wholly anti-freeway and would love to see rails replace all of our roads.