Tina Smith

Western Mesabi Mine Planning Board

U.S. Highway 169, known as the Cross Range Expressway, is the primary freight and passenger highway connection between Grand Rapids, Hibbing, and Virginia. This seventy mile distance was completed to a four lane divided highway between the 1960s and 1994, except for approximately 9.5 miles between Coleraine and Pengilly which was left as two lane undivided highway. Four miles were completed more recently, still leaving 8.4 miles of undivided two lane highway sandwiched between four lane divided

Oslo Region Joint Powers Board

The Red River of the North, bordering MN and ND, is extremely susceptible to spring and summer flooding events, overtopping roads and rail transportation and inundating farmland. This disrupts traffic by closing I-29 and all highway access through Oslo, MN on MN Hwy 1, and to ND Hwy 54, a trunk highway connecting northern Minnesota to I-29, as well as rail commerce delivering agricultural products to market. In the last 25 years, there have been 13 major flood events. The city of Oslo and far

City of Burnsville

I-494: Airport to Highway 169, is a 9.5 mile reconstruction of Interstate 494 (I-494) to increase capacity and improve safety along the interstate to better serve the growing freight and multimodal needs of the region. The goals of the Project are to address traffic mobility in the freight corridor, improve safety by reducing the high crash rates, preserve infrastructure and increase sustainability by restoring pavement and replacing/preserving existing bridges, and provide an improved and eq