HF 3753

as introduced - 81st Legislature (1999 - 2000) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to highways; requiring metered ramp study by 
  1.3             department of transportation; appropriating money. 
  1.4   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.5      Section 1.  [METERED ACCESS RAMP STUDY.] 
  1.6      (a) Notwithstanding other law to the contrary, the 
  1.7   commissioner shall order that all meters on access ramps to a 
  1.8   freeway or expressway, as defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 
  1.9   160.02, display flashing yellow lights for the month of October, 
  1.10  2000.  
  1.11     This section does not prohibit temporary closure or other 
  1.12  traffic flow restrictions of access ramps to a freeway or 
  1.13  expressway in the interests of public safety. 
  1.14     (b) The commissioner shall study and report to the 
  1.15  legislature by February 1, 2001, the traffic flow results on 
  1.16  expressways and freeways for that month.  The department shall 
  1.17  gather and compile any relevant facts, comparisons, statistics, 
  1.18  or other relevant data and report its findings of fact and 
  1.19  conclusions. 
  1.20     (c) $....... is appropriated from the trunk highway fund to 
  1.21  the commissioner of transportation for the purposes of this 
  1.22  section.