Bill Ostrem was our guest this week, discussing Northfield’s bicycle/pedestrian infrastructure — both the problems and the opportunities. Click photo to enlarge. Bill posted a detailed story on Northfield.org recently about bike…
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Northfield has a well-deserved reputation for community I.Q. (I’ve heard it said that we have more Ph.D’s per capita than anywhere else in the country.) But if we’re so smart,…
Lt. Governor Carol Molnau was in town this morning. I took this photo of her with the gang of morning regulars at The Bittersweet in the Archer House. She was…
I attended the taping of MPR’s In the Loop show tonight at their new UBS Forum, a public meeting space. The About page for the show says: We like to…
There has been much buzz about the closing of a nightclub in New York City known as CBGB. Allegedly hip news reporting outlets such as the Village Voice, Spin and…
On Saturday, my wife Robbie and I got a tour of Northfield Crossing on the northwest edge of downtown Northfield since we’re buying a condo there. Click photos to enlarge…
The focus of this week’s episode was transportation, specifically, County Highway 1 and the Corridor Preservation Study for Rice County. See Tracy’s But Where Does the Bridge Go? post last…
Oh, the barbs and arrows that I suffer… Although I told Griff that I was going to be out of town for the most recent podcast, he forgot that small…
Rice County, along with its “study partners,” including the City of Dundas, City of Northfield, Bridgewater Township, Northfield Township, and the Minnesota Department of Transportation, have initiated something called the CSAH 1 Corridor Preservation Study. The idea behind the study is to identify potential routes for an east-west arterial road south of Hwy. 19, since the 2025 Rice County Transportation Plan indicates that such a road may be needed. Hey, it’s never too soon to start planning.
The map here shows the defined corridor area. You can see the various concepts under consideration, and an evaluation matrix, out on the County’s website. The information contains some interesting little tidbits. (Do you know where the “leaking underground storage tanks” are in YOUR neighborhood? )
The goal of the study is stated as: Identify a safe and efficient corridor alignment option for further planning, preservation, and environmental analysis based on an objective evaluation of alternatives.
The evaluation criteria is as follows: