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, . The project is essentially anticipated to be financed with County, State and highway gas tax receipts and. funds appor- tioned to Ramsey County. We estimate the cost of the project to be $1,213,760.60. That's our engineer's estimate. We'll take bids and prices will change. Of the total cost of the project, the County anticipates that $18,556.85 will come out of County road bridge funds for the construction of the detached bituminous path. We have asked the City of Shoreview for $23,619.75, on the basis of our estimate, for essentially some $19,000 worth of curb and gutter - participation for the con- crete curb and gutter - and $4200.00 worth of utility improve- ments which they have asked to have included in the plans. The plans have been presented to Shoreview, they have reviewed them, I believe they're looking into some financial aspects as to how they're going to fund their share of this project. We anticipate they may approve it at their next Council meeting next week. The Arden Hills participation in the project that we're asking for is estimated at $18,896.06, based on 75% of the cost of the curb and gutter adjacent to the Arden Hills properties. We have also asked that the City participate in the acquisition of any right-of-ways that may be necessary or easements required as part of the construction project. . I believe, if I could just quickly review it, I think what we're proposing here is to continue the section south of Grey Fox, down around the railroad tracks and "E" there, on across 694 and up through "F", and up as far as the Control Data entrance. A companion to that is a project .that will provide new traffic signals at "F" that are traffic actuated. That's a separate project, to be constructed simultaneously with this. There is essentially, to my knowledge, no real controversial i.ssues with the project. I think the only place that there is some concern is that the existing bridge presently is 52 feet wide and it makes provision for two lanes across 694 - two lanes in each direction. It would be preferable to have two lanes in each direction, plus a left turn lane for those two ramps there. I think the biggest problem is the fact that we're pro- posing this eight foot bituminous path and it comes to the bridge without what we consider adequate provision to get pedestrians across. With that concern in mind, we have been working with the highway department to provide a separate ten foot wide pedestrian facility on the east side of the widened bridge, along with widening the bridge enough to provide for a left turn lane. This project has not developed to the point where we have scheduled the construction. It cannot be scheduled, I don't believe, to coordinate with this construction, but we are working towards what we see as a bottleneck in here - that is, the bridge over 694 - and the numerous left furns that are made, either onto the ramp to go west or onto the ramp to 694 to go east. If the project meets with the City of Shoreview's 2