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Politics & Government

Highway 52 Lafayette Bridge Open House Scheduled for Dec. 6

In late January or early February, no vehicle combinations of more than 35 feet in length will be allowed to use the Lafayette Bridge until the crossover is removed next November.

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Editor’s Note: The following press release is from the Minnesota Department of Transportation.

All interested parties are invited to attend an open house to learn more about a traffic crossover MnDOT is building from the existing Lafayette Bridge to the new northbound bridge.

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In late January or early February 2013, no vehicle combinations of more than 35 feet in length will be allowed to use the Highway 52 Lafayette Bridge spanning the Mississippi River until the crossover is removed in late November 2013.

The open house will be Tuesday, Dec. 6 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Neighborhood House at 179 Robie Street East in St. Paul.

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Open house attendees will be able to learn the details of the project, view project layouts and detour information and ask questions of MnDOT and the city of St. Paul project staff.

For more information about the Highway 52 Lafayette Bridge reconstruction project, and to sign up for email updates about it, visit the project website: http://www.dot.state.mn.us/lafayettebridge/

To request an ASL or foreign language interpreter, call 651-366-4720.  To request other reasonable accommodations, call 651-366-4718; the Minnesota Relay service toll-free at 1-800-627-3529) TTY, Voice or ASCII) or 711, or email your request to adarequest.dot@state.mn.us.
For real-time travel information anywhere in Minnesota visit www.511mn.org or dial 5-1-1.

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