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Ramsey US Trunk Highway 10 <br />Improvement Development Plan <br />July, 2015 <br />The City of Ramsey's leadership on issues related to the safety and congestion of US TH 10 has <br />produced both significant improvements and important opportunities in the corridor. The <br />improvements are best exemplified in the on-going construction of the Armstrong Interchange <br />project, but other, less visible improvements have occurred as well. These include the high <br />degree of cooperation and collaboration that characterizes the work with the county and other <br />cities in the corridor, the heightened awareness of corridor issues among key legislative and <br />congressional leaders, the growing public and business community support for the City's US TH <br />10 efforts, and increasing interest in economic development opportunities in the City along US <br />TH 10. All of these improvements contribute in significant ways to the momentum that has built <br />around the City's US TH 10 initiatives and the realistic opportunities that now exist for those <br />initiatives to succeed in attracting additional public investment in planned corridor <br />improvements. <br />This proposed work plan seeks to capitalize on those improvements and opportunities by <br />implementing a series of strategies focused on the goal of securing funding for additional <br />construction projects in the US TH 10 corridor benefiting the City of Ramsey. These strategies <br />will be targeted in three areas of opportunity: federal support, state legislative support, and <br />Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) support. It is critical to engage these efforts <br />now in order to take full advantage of the important inroads the City has through its earlier <br />legislative initiatives, its very successful federal contacts, and the effective way in which the City <br />has broadly communicated its US TH 10 rail crossing and safety concerns. At both the federal <br />and state levels, long term transportation funding decisions are currently being considered and <br />the strategies proposed in this work plan will help insure that the city continues to be in the <br />best possible position to benefit. <br />1. Federal <br />A. Federal support strategies will include: <br />• Follow-up work with congressional members and staff contacted during the <br />City's June meetings in DC <br />