Minnesota’s popular Corridors of Commerce highway funding program has 400 million dollars to spend over the next four years, and MN-DOT is taking recommendations on its website through February 5th. Spokesman Kevin Gutknecht says the focus is projects that help the transportation system better support Minnesota’s economy, including “developing ways to eliminate bottlenecks, improve roadways, add lanes where they’re necessary and so on.” MN-DOT will announce in April which projects receive funding.
Gutknecht says for available funds, “50 percent of the money will be spent in the metro area and 50 percent in Greater Minnesota. I think there was concern out there for a while that more might be spent someplace else, and that’s not the case.” Project recommendations are being accepted online at mndot.gov/corridorsofcommerce.