Road construction

The Woodbury City Council put the brakes on a citizen-supported plan to slow speeding traffic on a residential street. Responding to complaints of speeding vehicles along Woodcrest Drive, city workers proposed installing modified speed bumps - called "speed tables" - to encourage...

Informative tweets or invitations for danger? Embracing the social-networking surge, Washington County transportation officials are trying something new: They have provided updates to the Radio Drive road construction project on Twitter, the short-message Internet communication tool....

A pavement problem on a recently revamped stretch of Highway 61 will force a lane closure Wednesday through Thursday, the Minnesota Department of Transportation said Tuesday. A joint failure on northbound Highway 61 just north of 80th Street will cause the closure of the right lane...

A local school that opposes its charge for a recent street project said it will have to tap into its student budget to pay for the assessment. The Woodbury City Council approved assessments to the Math and Science Academy and Red Rock Elementary for a pavement rehabilitation project...

Motorists will be on new pavement on a stretch of Radio Drive beginning Wednesday morning. Crews replacing pavement on Radio Drive north and south of Valley Creek Road will move traffic from the southbound side of Radio Drive to the northbound side beginning at 6 a.m. Wednesday,...

Motorists will experience lane closures on eastbound Interstate 494 from Fifth Avenue in South St. Paul to Highway 61 in Newport, in the area of the Wakota Bridge, according to a Minnesota Department of Transportation press release. The lane closure will be in effect between 7 p.m....

The major Interstate 494 construction project in Woodbury is nearly done. The Minnesota Department of Transportation said Wednesday that completion of the five-month project is set for Aug. 27. Crews since April have worked on I-494 from Interstate 94 to south of Lake Road. They...

Transportation staff from Washington County and the city of Woodbury are partners in installing two new coordinated traffic signal control systems along Radio Drive (County Highway 13) and along Woodbury Drive (County Highway 19), which are expected to reduce travel times along these...

The Minnesota Department of Transportation is planning to close Century Avenue under I-494, between Highwood Avenue and Courtly Road, for five days starting July 26. The closure is needed for bridge painting.

Lake Road, from Woodlane Drive to Copper Oaks Trail, will be closed to all traffic starting July 21 and ending approximately Aug. 21, weather permitting. The closure is needed so that the road can be rehabilitated. No traffic, including local residents, will be allowed on Lake Road...

The 80th Street entrance ramp to northbound Highway 61 is expected to close for two weeks starting on or around July 15 as the new concrete surface is placed on the highway between Innovation Road and 70th Street, according to a press release. Ramps to and from northbound Highway...

Motorists can expect delays as the ramps and loops located on the east side of the I-694/I-494/I-94 interchange are scheduled to close late evening Monday, July 5.