I'd like to know why MnDOT keeps calling it a river crossing when the bridge is clearly crossing Lake Saint Croix, as defined by the MnDNR?

It's funny you won't recognize the fact that the MnDNR classifies the section of the water the new bridge will be constructed in as a LAKE.

Why is that?

It's a FACT!!!

Thanks. I linked to their map from that site.

St Paul paper says the bridge cost just went up to $676,000,000 (six hundred and seventy six million dollars). The reason is because of the large accumulation of muck on the bottem of Lake Saint Croix where the bridge is to be constructed.

I guess the muck accumulated after the initial analysis of the Lake Bottem when the project was intially priced out. I guess it's possible there was NO anaylsis of the Lake bottem when the project was initially priced. So where will the final cost of the Bachmann Franken Kobachar Bridge To Nowhere (BFK BTN) end up?

All for 9,000 users of the bridge. Also in the article it mentions this is the second most expensive bridge ever built in Minnesota.

I'll bet IF the number of users was calculated into the total cost the BFK BTN BY FAR WILL BE THE most expensive bridge ever built in Minnesota and maybe the entire world.

Think about it IF the cost reaches $900,000,000 each and every user of the BFK BTN could be given $100,000 and allowed to retire with no bridge use and forget building the bridge over Lake Saint Croix.

Would users take the $100,000 and agree to retire not using the bridge?

So.....what happens when all the worlds water is polluted by these schemes? Water wars will make our current oil wars look like a cake-walk.

T. Manthe