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Committee hears overview of Corridors of Commerce program, funding and eligibility rules
Summary
House Research staff and MnDOT described the Corridors of Commerce program as a competitive, trunk-highway program created in 2013 to fund capacity and freight-improvement projects; members asked about funding sources, regional allocations and a 10% readiness set-aside.
Matt Burrows, a policy analyst with House Research, told the House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee on Feb. 11, 2025, that the Corridors of Commerce program funds capacity and freight-related improvements on Minnesota’s trunk highway system and operates as a competitive project-selection program administered by the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT).
The program, Burrows said, was created in legislation in 2013 and has been revised several times. It targets projects on the interstate system, U.S. highways and other trunk highways and is separate from MnDOT’s general project-development process. “The basic articulated goals of the program are roughly twofold,” Burrows said: “provide for capacity expansion … particularly looking at gaps or bottlenecks” and improve freight movement and economic competitiveness.
Burrows outlined the program’s key eligibility and design features: projects must be on the trunk highway system (a subset of the National Highway System), fit into one of two statutory classifications (capacity development or freight access/mobility improvements), and be sufficiently developed to…
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