Project Manager Newsletter
May 2025
This month has been extremely busy for the project team, and next month will be no less busier! You can see our most updated list of meetings, coffee chats and other engagements events in June on the meetings webpage. We are looking forward to seeing you at our events in Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center. Later this year we will also start getting out into Minneapolis! Thank you for your continued engagement and welcome to the May edition of the PM Newsletter.
At the Policy Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting on May 20, the project team presented our recommendation for access onto and off Hwy 252 if it is converted to a freeway. The recommendation, referred to Access Combination No. 1, shows where and how people can get on, off and across Hwy 252.
We evaluated five different access combinations to determine which would perform the best, measuring how each combination might improve travel time, transit access, emergency response times. We also examined potential crash rates and property impacts under each access combination. Access Combination No. 1 emerged as the option that brought the most improvements across key evaluation criteria.
Access Combination No. 1 recommends full access interchanges at 85th Ave. and Brookdale Dr. in Brooklyn Park and 66th Ave. in Brooklyn Center. Bicycle and pedestrian bridges are recommended at 81st and 70th Avenues. An underpass is recommended at 73rd Ave. for all modes of travel. Access Combination No. 1 has fewer potential property relocations, has fewer crashes and fewer fatal and serious injury crashes over a 20-year period, improves emergency response times, is the most compatible with existing and proposed future city plans for community and local roads, improves mobility and transit accessibility, and improves bicycle and pedestrian safety and mobility. To help you better understand how we arrived at the decision, please visit our access combination website which includes interactive maps, traffic movement animations, analysis data, and findings.
After spending time learning about the recommended access combination, please fill out the accompanying survey to communicate your thoughts on the access combination recommendation and other items.
We are also planning on spending time in the community to share this information, take your questions and hear more about how the recommended access combination would impact you. Please join us for in-person public meetings on Tue, June 10 or Wed, June 11 as we further explain the access combination recommendation.
We also will continue with virtual Table Talks this summer on topics of concern as well as our Coffee Chats on the fourth Thursday of every month. Please visit the meetings webpage to find out more.
I’d also like to share a general reminder as we embark on our public engagement in these coming weeks: Please be sure to engage in a respectful manner with project staff, your neighbors and others. We want everyone to feel welcome and able to share their feedback, opinions and questions. Thank you all for your continued engagement.