The members of the Forest Lake City Council are frustrated, and they have every right to be.
Last month, the council told the Minnesota Department of Transportation that it wasn’t sure about giving municipal consent on a new design for the U.S. Highway 8 bridge in Forest Lake. It wasn’t that they thought the bridge rebuild was unnecessary. It wasn’t even that they disliked the design itself. Instead, they felt their requests for changes to the project that would make it more beneficial for local residents were being ignored.broadstreet.zone(48036);
One could make the argument, perhaps, that MnDOT’s original project scope for its I-35 resurfacing and bridge rebuild project was fine the way it was. It would be a hard sell in some cases – the department’s stubborn refusal to expand the Highway 97 bridge, for example, must seem ridiculous to the thousands of commuters who jam its narrow corridor every day –
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