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Attachment C <br />THE REGIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SNELLING <br />AVENUE PEDESTRIAN AND BIKEBRIDGE <br />The City of Roseville, located in Ramsey County, is a first ring suburb of St. Paul and <br />Minneapolis. Roseville is home to 36,254 residents, 15,554, and over 34,000 jobs within the <br />community. Roseville shares borderswith10 different communities including St. Paul and <br />Minneapolis and has the principal arterials of Hwy. 36 and I-35W corridors as well County Road <br />minor arterials that traverse through the city. As a result of its location and amenities, <br />Roseville is a regional destination for jobs, shopping, and recreation. <br />Snelling Ave, Trunk Highway 51, runs down the middle of the City of Roseville providing a vital <br />regional link through the heart of St Paul and up into Arden Hills and the ring road freeway <br />system of Interstate 694. It provides a key system to system interchange at TH 36 which <br />provides regional access to the Rosedale shopping center, Har Mar Mall and a link to the first <br />Bus Rapid Transit line in Minnesota and ultimately the State Fair Grounds and Allianz Field, <br />home of the Minnesota United professional soccer club. Snelling Ave also carries a lot of traffic. <br />Snelling Ave carries over 46,000 vehicles per day over TH 36. Given the amount of traffic on <br />Snelling and that moves between Snelling and TH 36, thisinterchange was constructed as a <br />system to system interchange with a full clover leaf interchange design. With the freeway style <br /> <br />