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The landscaping of the highway was meant to give the highway a parkway-like experience. As such, it was built with a wider right-of-way than the typical highway. The Golden Valley Garden Club supported efforts to plant lilacs along the highway and the Minneapolis Journal coined the name "Lilac Way". Eventually, 7,000 lilacs were planted.
The bid was won by the Ames, Lunda, and Schafer consortium for $288 million. Construction began in May 2007. The project included 25 new bridges, 63 lane-miles of highway, and expanded the total roadway width from 6 lanes to 12 lanes at Lyndale Avenue. The bridges were cast in Coates, Minnesota, and trucked in for
Closed, now part of reconstructed MN 62 (Crosstown Highway) interchange; was southbound exit and northbound entrance: Minneapolis: 11.867– 11.891: 19.098– 19.137: 12A: 60th Street: Closed, now part of exit 11 SB; was southbound exit and northbound entrance: 12.518: 20.146: 12: Diamond Lake Road: No southbound entrance: 13.133– 13.632: 21. ...
The highway was first authorized on June 2, 1975. [1] The westbound span of the Mississippi River bridge was built in 1985, [10] and, along with the existing freeway east of MN 252, was opened in October 1987. [11] Officials in Minnesota proposed tolls as a means to fund the construction on the highway in 1989. [12]
Minnesota State Highway 7, or Trunk Highway 7, (MN 7, TH 7) is a state highway in Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with MN 28 near Beardsley and continues east to its terminus with MN 100 and County Road 25 (CR 25) in St. Louis Park. The highway runs east–west for approximately 194.2 miles (312.5 km) through mostly rural farmland ...
Minnesota State Highway 280 (MN 280) is a 3.710-mile-long (5.971 km) highway in the Twin Cities region of Minnesota that travels from its Interchange with Interstate 94/U.S.Route 12/US Route 52 (I-94/US 12/US 52) in Saint Paul to its interchange with I-35W in Roseville.
The first section of I-90 in Minnesota constructed was the bypass of Austin in 1961. [4] The wayside rest area near Blue Earth is where the east-building I-90 and west-building I-90 teams linked up in 1978, thus completing construction in Minnesota and joining the 3,099.07 miles (4,987.47 km) of the Interstate. [5]
The interstate highways are part of a class of routes known as interregional corridors, which also includes U.S. Routes 2, 8, 10, 14, 52, 53, 61, 63, 169, and 212 and Minnesota State Highways 23, 34, 36, 60, 210, and 371. [2] Interregional corridors represent two percent of the state's highways but account for one-third of all vehicle miles ...