The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) intends to remove at-grade boulevard options from consideration for Rethinking I-94 in the fall. MnDOT is justifying this decision with bad faith arguments that prioritize car traffic over the health and well-being of impacted communities.
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MnDOT is studying 10 options for the Rethinking I-94 project, which will determine the future of I-94 between downtown Minneapolis and downtown Saint Paul. Thanks to community support for the Twin Cities Boulevard campaign, the options being considered include two that would convert the highway trench back into an at-grade community boulevard.
There are really two options for the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s Rethinking I-94 project. First, study an option supported by frontline communities, elected officials, and city resolutions—an option that looks to the future and reconnects communities along I-94 by building a multi-modal boulevard that meets the diverse ways people move today, restores and revitalizes communities, and builds economic opportunity for those harmed by the highway and for our cities at large.
The other option is to fail at truly “Rethinking I-94” and double down on a logic of the past by rebuilding the highway as it is today, harming communities for generations to come.
Communities divided by I-94 deserve the opportunity to create a new future for the corridor. This must include options that don’t rebuild the highway trench. If MnDOT proceeds with this decision, it will take that option away from Saint Paul and Minneapolis communities.
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