Minnesota Department of Transportation

Okay,

well, how about this? In the fiscal year of 2025, the Minnesota Department of Transportation, I like to call them MNDOT, operated with a projected total budget and spending plan of...

$4.2 billion.

Yeah, well, that's fixing roads and bridges.

And Governor Tim Walz, who chose early on to invest in Minnesota's future, He had everything to do with it, and she goes on and on and on about Walls.

At the Minnesota Department of Transportation, we knew how to manage major projects, but the Blotnick is a league of its own.

Governor Walls' leadership moved this project forward since we began planning it in 2020.

Walls and MnDOT announced a $400 million investment in Blotnik.

And we move on from that.

It looks like the Minnesota Department of Transportation will begin concrete grinding work on I-35 tunnels starting...

On Monday, the 28th, drivers can expect single lane traffic during work hours and a full day of closure on the I-35 northbound on ramps and southbound off ramp on Lake Avenue mid next week.

So avoid the tunnels if you can.

Um, I wanna say that was two or three years ago, um, somewhere in that timeframe.

So what we did since the roundabouts were new to our district is that we worked with the Minnesota DOT, uh, because they have plenty of roundabouts in Minnesota.

Um, so we actually-

And plenty of snow.

And so that, that is definitely a consideration, and especially on these locations that are on the edges of the community.

You know, sometimes that the elevator's in town, and so there's al- they're always gonna be there, or they're gonna be there, you know, until that adjacent land gets developed.

We just actually had a meeting recently with some staff from Minnesota DOT about some additional changes they've been making at some that are in more truly kind of rural only locations, and, and that may be something to take into account for future designs with kind of keeping the shoulder approaching the roundabout more open and less of a curb to do on the outside there, so.

Wow, we have covered a lot today.

I was a traffic reporter.

I was in the traffic management center of the Minnesota Department of Transportation.

In between reports, I heard a plane hit World Trade Center.

I go, wow, that's weird.

It is a whole racket, and it's not just the military.

I saw that kind of activity firsthand when I was a traffic reporter and I was working with the Minnesota Department of Transportation.

And if anybody wants to question me on this from the Minnesota Department of Transportation, come on, bitch.

I'd love to talk to you.

But here's what happens.

They want to try and compete with the Chinese.

Minnesota DOT offering the next tranche of Nevi money, $41.2 million now that the major interstates have been covered.

So 35, 90, and 94 are now certified as fully built out.

They're looking for the next set of 40 locations to build up chargers, four NACs, and CCS chargers.