Three of the area’s most prolific highway contractors are poised to team up on the Interstate 35W and Lake Street access project in Minneapolis, an ambitious and complicated overhaul designed to improve safety, traffic control and transit service in the I-35W corridor in the city.

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A group of designers and developers say building over downtown interstates can reunite divided neighborhoods, increase development, ease the tax burden and increase money for transportation in one fell swoop.

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To remember the collapse of a busy Minnesota highway bridge, state historians preserved items they thought would vividly convey the chaotic scene that unfolded in 2007: a battered Interstate 35W sign, an emergency worker's shirt, the back door of a school bus that young survivors used to escape.

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By TARA BANNOW Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The memorial to victims of the Interstate 35W bridge collapse is starting to take shape at a Minneapolis park along the Mississippi River. Mayor R.T. Rybak and the architect of the so-called ...

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By ?JEFF BAENEN Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A California design firm asked the Minnesota Supreme Court on Monday to block the firm from being sued by the state of Minnesota over the deadly Interstate 35W bridge collapse. ...

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Brian Bakst AP Writer St. Paul, MN — Two companies the state accuses of negligence that contributed to the Interstate 35W bridge collapse have won a combined $50 million in new highway and bridge contracts since the deadly disaster two ...

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