Construction Update

The widening of 14th Street behind our house is a 2 mile project with a round-about at either end, a bridge over the interstate, a four-lane divided road, a bike trail, and buried electric lines and buried drainage pipe.  Total cost of the project is around 5 million. 

The project was started in September of 2011.  Each month that goes by we have less and less access to our home.  Right now if we want to go south towards downtown, we have to go east, then north, then west, then north, then west, then south then west, and then finally turn south towards town.  We, and all of our friends, delivery people, service people, etc. are looking forward to the end of the project.

Interstate bridge with bike trail on both sides.

I posted pictures many months ago of this bridge.  It appears to be completed, but the roads leading up to it are not quite finished.  It's opening was originally scheduled for September of 2012.

View from the bridge and looking south towards  town.

The picture above shows some new pavement.  Near the top of the picture is the southern-most boundary of the project.  At that intersection they are building a huge, two-lane round-about with tunnels underneath for the bike trails.

Looking west on Fletcher.

Fletcher is the first road south of our house that gets us out of our neighborhood.  It is located on the north end of the interstate bridge.  It still needs more dirt and new cement before it is ready to open.

Cement pouring near our back yard.

The night before we left for the Boundary Waters July trip, the workers poured cement with night lights, beginning about 2 a.m.  I snapped this picture around 8 a.m. as we were preparing to leave.