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Saint Louis County, MnDOT win Hibbing council OK to reconfigure high-risk Town Line Road–Highway 73 intersection
Summary
The Hibbing City Council voted to concur with a Saint Louis County/MnDOT layout to realign and add turn lanes and lighting at the skewed Town Line Road intersection on Highway 73, a project the county says ranks in the top 3% of intersection risk locally and will use state Local Partnership Program funding.
Saint Louis County and the Minnesota Department of Transportation on Wednesday won Hibbing City Council concurrence for a preliminary layout that would realign the skewed intersection of Town Line Road and Trunk Highway 73, add left- and right-turn lanes and install intersection lighting.
Vic Lund, traffic engineer for Saint Louis County, told the council the intersection ranks in the top 3% of county intersections for crash risk and said the project is a data-driven safety effort. “Safety of the traveling public is our number one priority,” Lund said, describing the county’s goal of reducing traffic fatalities.
The county and MnDOT presented a “safe…
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