The Minnesota Department of Transportation plans to begin a resurfacing project along a half-mile of Snelling Avenue, or Minnesota 51, between St. Clair and Grand avenues, as a new concrete center median and sidewalk and trail improvements are installed along Snelling between Montreal Avenue and Ford Parkway.

MnDOT will host an open house on the St. Clair to Grand Avenue road improvements from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Macalester College Weyerhaeuser Building, 62 South Macalester St.

Project staff will give a brief presentation beginning at 5 p.m., with poster boards and project layout available for perusal. Refreshments will be served.

The St. Clair to Grand Avenue project includes replacing the signal system at Snelling and St. Clair, as well as building pedestrian bump-outs and making intersections in the area compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Some 34 trees, most of them dead or diseased, were removed in January. Drainage, sanitary sewer and storm sewer upgrades are part of the project, which should be complete in August.

Also along Snelling, MnDOT is constructing an eight-foot concrete center median between Montreal Avenue and Ford Parkway, with breaks for designated left turns at Rome, Saunders, Beechwood and Bohland avenues. There will not be a left turn at Hillcrest Avenue. A 10-foot wide multi-use trail will be installed on the east side of Snelling. Sidewalk improvements are planned on the west side of the street, expanding it from five- to six-foot.

The traffic signal at Snelling and Montreal avenues will be reconstructed. Work will continue through the summer. For more information, go to tinyurl.com/Snelling2024.

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