![]() You’re reading this paywall-free thanks to the financial support of our subscribers and advertisers. This article isn’t free for us to produce. MnDOT indicated in the agreement with the county that traffic is expected to be detoured for about 3.25 months during the project. ![]() According to the agreement, MnDOT estimates it will pay the county $32,106.89 for road life consumed and maintenance based on reimbursement formulas.īergman said he expects some drivers will use alternate routes that are shorter than the designated detour and that MnDOT advised him to conduct traffic counts on some of those roads and indicated it might reimburse the county for some of the added traffic there too. “It looks a little strange because it’s so far out of the way, but we’ve got a posted bridge on County Road 8 and a posted bridge on 7 and they can’t use routes with posted bridges, so that’s why they took that one way around,” said Nick Bergman, Pipestone County highway engineer.īecause the detour includes county-maintained roads, MnDOT presented the county with a detour agreement that the county commissioners approved during their Nov. 75 from Fourth Street NE to the north, according to MnDOT, but the detour will be about 22 miles. The construction will only include 360 feet of Hwy. 23 to Holland, then north on County State Aid Highway (CSAH) 16 for 4.45 miles and then west on CSAH 10 for 6 miles back to Hwy. ![]() MnDOT’s chosen detour will take traffic north on Hwy. Highway 75 in Pipestone and through Holland next summer while the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) replaces and relocates the bridge and reroutes the ditch. Traffic will be rerouted around the bridge on U.S. ![]()
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