MN-DOT is getting Duluth residents — and Minnesotans who visit the port city and the North Shore — ready for a major rebuild of the “Can of Worms” interchange which begins next year and will run through 2023. Assistant District Engineer Pat Huston (HEW-stun) says the main junction where I-35 meets other major thoroughfares has the fourth- or fifth-highest crash rate in Minnesota. “The one good thing is that they’re primarily property damage. They’re not serious or fatal accidents, and they’re mostly caused by bad merges and left exits, which we will address,” he says.
MN-DOT announced last month the cost is 100 million dollars over the 343 million originally estimated, and work will have to be postponed on part of the project (the Garfield Avenue interchange and the Highway 53 bridge).