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Mr. Culver stated he heard that Metro Transit is truncating the 84 line at Como and <br />will no longer go all the way up to Rosedale. He stated he has not heard that there <br />is going to be any supercharging of any of the routes. He stated MnDOT and Metro <br />Transit have been trying to work together on more of the larger projects to try to <br />enhance the express bus routes more and try to improve service and access and to <br />market those more to try to get people out of their vehicles. The park and ride in <br />Roseville has some capacity but is at the southern end of the project. <br />Chair Cihacek stated his concern is with all of the construction that will be going <br />on it is going to push vehicles through the residential areas of the City. <br />Member Misra asked what some alternative routes from Blaine are once off of <br />35W. <br />Mr. Culver stated Central Avenue/Highway 65 corridor is one of the primary routes <br />along with Lexington Avenue. He stated one thing he was very impressed with <br />MnDOT is a study that was conducted of alternative routes and how people are <br />going to divert away from 35W. MnDOT looked at what could be done along some <br />of those routes to enhance, improve capacity along those areas to help handle the <br />additional traffic as people are diverting. He stated one mitigation effort MnDOT <br />is going to do which might become permanent is MnDOT is going to close the <br />median crossing on Snelling Avenue at Hamlin. MnDOT is going to close it during <br />this project because of more expected traffic on Snelling but MnDOT would love <br />for it to close permanently and he thought Roseville would support that permanent <br />full closer, but the intersection is actually in Arden Hills, so staff does not know <br />how that is going to play out yet. <br />Member Kruse asked if MnDOT has told staff which interchanges will be closed <br />during the project. <br />Mr. Freihammer stated staff will get a schedule in the next couple of months in <br />order to know what will be closed and in which phase it will happen. <br />Mr. Culver stated the City set some ground rules that MnDOT cannot close County <br />Road C and County Road D at the same time. There are some limitations on <br />MnDOT staging. <br />Mr. Freihammer showed the current construction of the Fernwood lift station. <br />Mr. Culver stated staff went back and forth as far as what is the right thing. There <br />are certainly some advantages from a maintenance perspective of having a building <br />and working on the pumps and such. It does make getting to the pumps more <br />difficult and managing and maintaining the wet well is more difficult with the <br />building structure. He said the new design cleans up the area and improves the <br />sight distance for turning onto Fernwood. <br />Page 8 of 10 <br />