HF 797

as introduced - 82nd Legislature (2001 - 2002) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to highways; imposing restrictions on 
  1.3             reconstruction project on marked trunk highway No. 62 
  1.4             in Minneapolis and Richfield.  
  1.5   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.6      Section 1.  [TRUNK HIGHWAY 62; RESTRICTIONS.] 
  1.7      (a) The commissioner of transportation may not undertake 
  1.8   any reconstruction project on, or let any contract for the 
  1.9   reconstruction of, marked trunk highway No. 62 between France 
  1.10  Avenue South and Portland Avenue South that does not provide, 
  1.11  when completed, for at least two continuous mixed-use lanes of 
  1.12  travel to accommodate traffic merging from eastbound lanes on 
  1.13  trunk highway No. 62 onto northbound lanes of marked interstate 
  1.14  highway No. I-35W. 
  1.15     (b) The commissioner may not acquire any more real property 
  1.16  for the project described in paragraph (a) in order to comply 
  1.17  with paragraph (a) beyond the minimum amount needed for such 
  1.18  compliance. 
  1.19     (c) In order to comply with paragraph (b), the commissioner 
  1.20  may close access from Lyndale Avenue South in Richfield onto the 
  1.21  eastbound lanes of marked trunk highway No. 62 and may close 
  1.22  access to Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis from the westbound 
  1.23  lanes of marked trunk highway No. 62. 
  1.24     (d) Any project undertaken by the commissioner to 
  1.25  reconstruct the common alignment of marked trunk highway No. 62 
  2.1   and marked interstate highway No. I-35W in Minneapolis and 
  2.2   Richfield that would result in the closing of marked trunk 
  2.3   highway No. 62 to all traffic in either direction must be 
  2.4   completed within two years of the date of the first closing, 
  2.5   unless additional delay is the result of events beyond the 
  2.6   commissioner's control. 
  2.7      [EFFECTIVE DATE.] This section is effective the day 
  2.8   following final enactment.