The downtown Minneapolis Transportation Management Organization hosted the summit to give downtown employers, employees, and business owners a snapshot of major road and transit projects over the next two years.

Landowners may find it difficult to sell nonconforming property following a zoning change and the value of property tends to be less after it becomes nonconforming.

Gov. Mark Dayton released a list of unscheduled road and bridge projects that he said would happen if the proposal survives the uphill battle it faces in the Legislature.

Hoping to squeeze more life out of the 2,100-foot-long concrete arch bridge over the Mississippi River, the city has made the project a centerpiece of its 2015 legislative agenda.

This is the second of two commentaries on Greater Minnesota transportation options.

The priorities for both parties will have to take into account the two budgetary “whales in the bathtub:” K-12 education and health care.

The current budget assumes $225 million in bonding this year and the state doesn’t have the resources for additional debt service unless the next budget forecast — scheduled to come out mid-March — calls for another surplus.

Transportation infrastructure is as critical to us as water and sewage treatment--a breakdown in either will destroy a region as quickly as a plague.

The debate at the Capitol will center on roads, bridges and mass transportation, mostly ignoring the other infrastructure needs in the state.

Incoming House Transportation Policy and Finance Committee Chairman, Republican Rep. Tim Kelly, says roads and bridges in greater Minnesota would be a top priority going into the upcoming session.