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RESOLUTION NO. 2018-24
APPROVING THE NOMINATION OF PROJECTS
FOR THE 2018 CORRIDORS OF COMMERCE SOLICITATION
TO THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Edina is the official governing body of the City of Edina,
Minnesota; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has considered the nomination of the following list of projects for the
2018 Corridors of Commerce solicitation to the Minnesota Department of Transportation:
• 135W/1494 Interchange Turbine Interchange Improvements — Phase I
• Eastbound 1-494 between France Ave. and 1-35W (1.4 miles of Auxiliary lane) from the 1494/TH62
Congestion Relief Study
• Eastbound 1-494 between East Bush Lake Road and TH 100 (0.5 miles of Auxiliary lane) from the
1494/TH62 Congestion Relief Study
• 135W/1494 Interchange Turbine Interchange Improvements — Phase 1, plus, Eastbound 1-494 between
France Ave. and 1-35W (1.4 miles of Auxiliary lane) from the 1494/TH62 Congestion Relief Study
• 135W/1494 Interchange Turbine Interchange Improvements — Phase 1, plus, Eastbound 1-494
between France Ave. and 1-35W (1.4 miles of Auxiliary lane) from the 1494/TH62 Congestion Relief
Study, plus, Eastbound 1-494 between East Bush lake Road and TH 100 (0.5 miles of Auxiliary lane)
from the 1494/TH62 Congestion Relief Study
• Eastbound 1-494 between France Ave. and 1-35W (1.4 miles of Auxiliary lane) from the 1494/TH62
Congestion Relief Study, plus, Eastbound 1-494 between East Bush lake Road and TH 100 (0.5 miles of
Auxiliary lane) from the 1494/TH62 Congestion Relief Study
• 135W/1494 Interchange Turbine Interchange Improvements — Phase 1, plus, Eastbound 1-494 between
East Bush lake Road and TH 100 (0.5 miles of Auxiliary lane) from the 1494/TH62 Congestion Relief
Study
• 1-494 Bridges and Auxiliary Lanes from 1-35W to TH77 from the 1494/TH62 Congestion Relief Study
• 1-494 Bridges and Auxiliary Lanes from 1-35W to TH 100 from the 1494/TH62 Congestion Relief Study
• TH62 - Add auxiliary lanes on TH62 in each direction from TH77 to Portland Avenue to continue
Crosstown Commons Improvements
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• TH62 - Add auxiliary lanes on TH62 in each direction from Penn Avenue to TH 169 to continue
Crosstown Commons Improvements
• 77`h Street Underpass at TH77
• Ramp modifications at Crosstown/TH 77 Interchange
• TH62 and TH77 — Close loop ramp from westbound Highway 62 to southbound Highway 77, and
reconstruction westbound ramp and traffic signal on Highway 77 to accommodate westbound
Highway 62 to southbound Highway 77. These ramp modifications will improve the northbound to
westbound movement.
• 1-494 —Add MnPASS lanes in each direction from US 212 to TH 5 / MSP Airport
• 1-494 —Add MnPASS lanes in each direction from France Avenue to TH77 (eastbound only from
France Avenue to 1-35W)
WHEREAS, the City of Edina supports the funding, building, operating, and maintaining of a robust
multimodal transportation system that reduces congestion, improves safety and the efficient movement of
freight, and enables the metropolitan area, and the State of Minnesota to better compete with the other areas
of the United States and the world; and
WHEREAS, the 2013 Minnesota Legislature created the Corridors of Commerce program by
authorizing the sale new bonds for the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of trunk highways;
and
WHEREAS, the Corridors of Commerce program establishes two major goals: (1) to provide
additional highway capacity on segments where there are currently bottlenecks in the transportation system,
and (2) to improve the movement of freight and reduce barriers of commerce; and
WHEREAS, the afore listed projects are not currently included in the State Transportation
Improvement Program; and
WHEREAS, the 1-35W/1-494 interchange improvement project and projects along the 1494 and TH62
corridors are consistent with the Minnesota Go Vision, the guiding principles, and the objectives put forth in
the Statewide Multimodal Transportation Plan.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, the City Council supports the submittal and funding for
the listed Projects to the maximum extent possible as projects for the 2018 Corridors of Commerce program.
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Adopted this 6th day of March, 2018.
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City Clerk Mayor
STATE OF MINNESOTA )
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN )
CITY OF EDINA )
CERTIFICATE OF CITY CLERK
1, the undersigned duly appointed and acting City Clerk for the City of Edina do hereby certify that the attached
and foregoing Resolution was duly adopted by the Edina City Council at its Regular Meeting of March 6, 2018,
and as recorded in the Minutes of said Regular Meeting.
WITNESS my hand and seal of said City this day of 20_
City Clerk
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
7450 Metro Boulevard• Edina,Minnesota 55439
www.EdinaMN.gov.952-826-0371 . Fax 952-826-0392