Minnesota Transportation Roundtable: Friday Aug. 1 at 6:30pm on KSTP-TV (Channel 5)
I am scheduled to be part of a live roundtable discussion on MN transportation on Friday Aug. 1 at 6:30pm on KSTP-TV (Channel 5). (This marks the 7th anniversary of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge collapse).
The panel includes
El Tinklenberg, Fmr. MNDOT Commissioner
David Levinson Professor and RP Braun CTS Chair in Transportation University of Minnesota
Kathy Quick Assistant Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs U of M
Margaret Donahoe , Executive Director The MN Transportation Alliance
Edited: August 3, 2014
Updated: 08/01/2014 8:10 PM Created: 08/01/2014 7:42 PM KSTP.com By: Megan Stewart
The deadly 35W Bridge collapse in 2007 put "bridge safety" into the national spotlight.
Friday, Aug. 1, 2014, marks the seventh year since the structure fell into the Mississippi River during rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145 more.
The new bridge opened on Sept. 18, 2008, just before 5 a.m. It took only ten months to build.
But, less than seven years after the new bridge went up, a bridge inspection report by the Minnesota Department of Transportation shows the new bridge is aging.
KSTP sat down with four experts Friday to talk about bridge safety, along with the future of transportation.
The experts:
El Tinklenberg, former MnDOT Comissioner
David Levinson, professor from the University of Minnesota
Kathy quick, professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota
Margaret Donahoe, executive director of the Minnesota Transportation Alliance
Here is a link to the live panel discussion on KSTP TV: http://kstp.com/news/stories/s3521887.shtml