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MDOT presents Highway 2 downtown redesign; says three signals do not meet reinstallation warrant
Summary
MDOT staff outlined a preferred corridor alternative that narrows the roadway, adds ADA sidewalks, bike lanes and bumpouts, and reported that three signals in the downtown footprint did not meet statewide technical warrants for reinstallation; MDOT proposed alternatives including pedestrian beacons and open houses for public input.
State transportation staff updated the Crookston City Council on a Highway 2 corridor and downtown sidewalk project that would reduce travel lanes, reconstruct sidewalks to ADA standards, add bike lanes and curb bumpouts, and replace two signals that do meet warrants while removing three that do not based on intersection control evaluation counts.
“Based on the data we have in front of us today … we can’t justify reinstalling the signals,” MDOT project manager Matt Ukrin said, summarizing the intersection control evaluation (ICE) analysis that found low vehicle volumes at the Second Street signals (Broadway and Maine) and at Ash Street. MDOT staff said…
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