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310 Transit have been trying to work together on more of the larger projects to try to 311 enhance the express bus routes more and try to improve service and access and to 312 market those more to try to get people out of their vehicles. The park and ride in 313 Roseville has some capacity but is at the southern end of the project. 314 315 Chair Cihacek stated his concern is with all of the construction that will be going 316 on it is going to push vehicles through the residential areas of the City. 317 318 Member Misra asked what some alternative routes from Blaine are once off of 319 35W. 320 321 Mr. Culver stated Central Avenue/Highway 65 corri or is one of the primary routes 322 along with Lexington Avenue. He stated one thing he was very impressed with 323 MnDOT is a study that was conducted of alternative routes and how people are 324 going to divert away from 35W. MnDOT looked at what could be done along some 325 of those routes to enhance, improv capacity along those areas to help handle the 326 additional traffic as people are div n . He stated one mitigation effort MnDOT 327 is going to do which might become anent is MnDOT is going to close the 328 median crossing on Snelling Avenue at Hamline. MnDOT is going to close it 329 during this project because of mire expected traffic on Snelling but MfiDOT would 330 love for it to close permanently and he thought Roseville would support that 331 permanent full closer, but the intersection is actually in Arden Hills, so staff does 332 not know how that is going to play out yet. 333 334 Member Kruse asked if MnDOT has told staff which interchanges will be closed 335 during the project. 336 IREL 337 Mr. Freihammer stated staff will get a schedule in the next couple of months in 338 order to know what will be closed and in which phase it will happen. 339 340 Mr. Culver sta e Ci some ground rules that MnDOT cannot close County 341 Road C and Co Roa t the same time. There are some limitations on 342 MnDOT staging. 343 344 Mr. Freihammer sh the current construction of the Fernwood lift station. 345 346 Mr. Culver st ted staff went back and forth as far as what is the right thing. There 347 are certainly some advantages from a maintenance perspective of having a building 348 and working on the pumps and such. It does make getting to the pumps more 349 difficult and managing and maintaining the wet well is more difficult with the 350 building structure. He said the new design cleans up the area and improves the 351 sight distance for turning onto Fernwood. 352 353 Mr. Freihammer stated it is cheaper to go this route as well because the building 354 does not need to be rebuilt. 355 Page 8 of 10