Thursday, December 28, 2006

Transportation: delays, delays, delays

If you aren't sick of delays in transportation projects yet, here's another one. The Wakota bridge will be delayed another year while the state finds a new contractor. Originally scheduled to open next year, it will now be completed in 2009 at the earliest.

It may be the engineering firm's fault that designed the bridge incorrectly, but that is little consolation to drivers.

5 comments:

  1. Minnesota has one of the nice road systems of any of the states in the Union but the infrastructure was poorly designed.

    How on Earth could two major US cities, within 10 miles of one another, go without a subway system linking them?

    Yes, lightrail is a great idea but we are 50 years too late to make any signifcant improvements to the massive road structure Minnesota has created.

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  2. I've always thought that the Twin Cities highway system was designed on the back of bar napkin one late night. How else do you explain the Crosstown and Spghetti Junction in St. Paul? Any possiblity for having a serious analysis and report by a nonlocal expert team on what needs to be done? We have the advantage of being able to look to other cities for solutions.

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