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Jl To: ]1 ]1 ]1 M MO RNDUi: oF April 2, Proposed Ferr Street Pro llayor Hostetler The public ouL'pourtus o£ XmJl~tton o~er the Droposed HJ~nesota Department o~ ~rans- port·eton 0~/DO~) widening of Ferr7 Street at the intersection of ~ain ·ud Ferry Streets in Anoka, left ·u indelible impression on the dozen or so officials of DOT who attended the..Harch29th Anoka City HaLl hearing.. Not anticipated by those officials was documentation", in ~etail, of past studies that as recently as :Lq74, identified · corridor in An·ks County and across the l~t:Ls issippi River into Rennepin County through vhich could be constructed a major arteri~ for the purpose of accuse·dating ~,ch of the burdenson~ £erry Street traffic load generated vithin our f~oving umnictpal neighbors to the north and south. -The 1976 study, prepared under the Lmtding influence of our superbly capable present Co~ssioner of DOT Richard Braun, has been relegated to the inactive file vhile de- part~enc officials attempt to implement their piece-meal temporary, time-buying, seri, of videning projects on An·k·'· Fez-z~ Street. ]1 ]1 ]1 11 Il Il l! During the morning of the day of the hearing Z talked for an hour trith DOT Project Engineer Bob Brovnof Champlin. In a very candid and objective manner Engineer Brovn suggested that in order to accommodate the 'long range ~za~£ic loads projected for Ferry Street by the turn of the century (56,000 vehi~les/~ay by the year 2000), dramatic and extremely expensive construction upgrading rill be a necessity. Re suggested three possible alternative courses of action needed to address this certain growth in traffic during the next lO-L5 years: '1) 2) A phased inproveuent program for the present Champlin-Anoka route on Ferry Street. Within 25 years this ultimately vill involve an additional bridge across the ltississippi in close proximity and parallel to the existing liississippi ILiver Bridge. Also required at that tine vould be extensive right-of-way acquisition that has been estinated by DOT to have an anticipated $10 mLtlion price tag betveen the Hlssissippi River ·nd the T.H. l0 bypass in An·ks. A re-routin&, l~y'DO'Z*, of T~H. 47 from its present' fairgrounds lo- cation to a ney route either east or vest of Anoka, coupled vith · DOT JLtsst_ssippi River crossing vhich vould continue to be · part of the .Mn. T.H. system. This vould involve IL/~ acquisition costs in the estimated sun of $23 to $25 million in addition to the costs of the river ct··sing and approach linkages. II