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Transportation commissioner visits Glencoe

It isn’t often a state commissioner drops by Glencoe, but one did Tuesday, March 17, for an impromptu visit to gather local input about the state’s transportation needs. The state Legislature is currently looking at increased funding for transportation, but the issue is how much and where will it be spent.
Charlie Zelle, state commissioner of Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT), along with an entourage of MnDOT staffers, met with city, county and area representatives in the west conference room at the Glencoe City Center. Prior to that, Zelle met with the McLeod County Board of Commissioners.
Also at the city meeting were representatives of the Highway 212 coalition, who are seeking funding for two four-lane stretches on Highway 212 from Carver west to Norwood Young America. Glencoe is part of that coalition.
Mayor Randy Wilson said if those two stretches could be expanded into four lanes, “economically it’s huge.” He said support is widespread along the Highway 212 corridor as well as with communities like Hutchinson and Marshall, which also realize the importance of the Highway 212 interregional corridor.
“The group who needs (these improvements) gets larger,” Wilson added of the growing support for Highway 212 improvements.
Bob Lindall, president of the Highway 212 corridor group, said efforts were first made for Highway 212 improvements in the late 1940s.
He said the former Yellowstone Trail, which goes from the Twin Cities west to South Dakota, even has the support of Watertown, S.D., and the support of nearly every county board and most of the communities along its path.
“That’s how important this is,” Lindall said.

For more, see the March 25 print edition of The Chronicle.