Dave Piehl wrote:
So basically, several weeks ago stated that he hadWM: Approval is one thing, codifying the approval is another. You've experienced the same thing through the NRP process. Board approves plan, plan goes to city attorney or whoever, approved plan comes back to be signed. Then contracts are drawn, contracts are approved, bureaucratic requirements are satisfied, plan goes forward. It doesn't require exclamation points. It's boring as cow dung, but important.
approvals from MNDoT and the Feds on the weave, he
really meant that the approvals would happen
(maybe?)several months from the date of that claim. Interesting!
WM: Since I happened to be at this meeting, maybe I can add some info here. It should be no secret that when you change one part of a freeway system there will be adjustments to be made to accommodate the change. The bridge to Westbound 94 from Northbound 35W has always been a problem. It's not only a bottle neck, but the curve on the bridge tightens down at an odd spot which changes the arc of the curve unexpectedly. It's been known as "Corbin's Curve" after a bus driver who had a really hair-raising bus accident on the curve some 20 years ago. The situation presented to the 35W PAC, which will be voted up or down next month, tentatively, rebuilds the curved bridge to add another lane on the bridge and realigns the road bed on the West end of the bridge. Since all this work will take place on the present bridge and in the present road bed, it will not take additional land. The area is fronted by a one-block parking lot. So far as is recorded, no one lives in the parking lot.Also, I've recently learned that the cost estimates around addressing the weave issue could run as high as $25 million - that would raise the total project cost to around $178 million!! How many additional affordable housing units will be destroyed?
WizardMarks, Central
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