Maintaining Main St

Lasting economic 'halo' effects can follow timely coordinated, expected transportation funds, when hopefully those effects take care not to ruin historic neighborhoods, and instead opportune growth and community development possibilities. 

It has always been not where a railroad would get built but worries over where that rail would not get built, and what - or who - gets to influence that, who can afford to ride what is built. United States has built in place a massive fiber optic information superhighway capacity that sits barely half lit - because (unlimited?) wireless mobile data has proven all too irresistibly, addictively convenient, and lately, unavoidably necessary. Here come the hardware-less soft phones...... overhead watch as intense solar-energy auroras pop the fuses that supply orbital satellite talk minutes..... 

Timely matches in public funding (Federal-State-County-City) for public infrastructure investment come laden with caveats, complex contingencies that, even when under political ration (code for private funding) can at times happen, have happened, that everyone has enjoyed.  Economic cycles during better, easier times must not fail to anticipate investments need maintaining through slumps.  

Transportation by road declines during pandemic but watch where travelers need to get to these days. Empty planes are unprofitable to fly, vehicles not driven can't be taxed. Never has it been harder to pass government hats, even when all hats combine, sometimes not enough can be raised for replacing even one antique 'one-time-funded' traffic light system.

U.S. Highway 52 (US 52) enters Minnesota at Prosper, Iowa, then at downtown St. Paul/Minneapolis becomes unmarked concurrent with Interstate 94 (I-94) and runs on to Fargo/Moorhead in North Dakota. This economically significant “Amish Buggy Byway” (2009 study documenting before-during-after local land value effects of one US 52 road construction project) is a model of long-term civic engineering investment that connects two of the state’s largest urban areas through farmland, joining the capitol city with the campus of one of Minnesota’s several non-profit, educational, research and venture-focused approaches that offer versions of scaled team healthcare, the Mayo Clinic. 

There is a folded diamond interchange transition to four-lane freeway that becomes concurrent with Interstate 90 (I-90) at Rochester. For more detailed information, refer to Wikipedia, MnDOT 511 Maps.