{"id":1373,"date":"2011-11-29T09:36:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T15:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2023-03-03T14:41:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T20:41:05","slug":"central-mn-freight-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/2011\/11\/29\/central-mn-freight-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Minnesota Freight Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Public Radio recently featured a story on MnDOT&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.state.mn.us\/planning\/freightplan\/central\/\">Central Minnesota Regional Freight Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Solutions for sluggish truck traffic on Interstate Highway 94 in Central Minnesota include bolstering the interstate\u2019s capacity or linking it to U.S. Highway 10 via a new freeway connection.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s according to a preliminary state study of freight transportation in the region, released by the Minnesota Department of Transportation earlier this month. MnDOT fielded public comment on the draft study at a meeting Monday afternoon in St. Cloud.<br \/>\nThe study, which should be finalized early next year, says improving Interstate 94 would aid the movement of freight in Central Minnesota.<br \/>\nThe study also calls for regaining air service at St. Cloud Regional Airport, improving freight rail access in the region, creating a new committee for businesses to give input on transportation issues, and designating go-to roads for oversized truck loads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sctimes.com\/article\/20111129\/NEWS01\/111280050\/MnDOT-freight-study-calls-94-US-10-link\">entire article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Public Radio recently featured a story on MnDOT&#8217;s Central Minnesota Regional Freight Plan. Solutions for sluggish truck traffic on Interstate Highway 94 in Central Minnesota include bolstering the interstate\u2019s capacity or linking it to U.S. Highway 10 via a new freeway connection. That\u2019s according to a preliminary state study of freight transportation in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway","tag-minnesota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11409,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/11409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}