Mn dot killed people when mn dot fixed the wakota bridge which was for congestion relief before replacing 35w bridge and people died because of uour poor decisions and lack of mn dot oversite. Mn dot upper mabagement need to be fired and replaced by monkeys. Monkeys could do a better job then current dot employees

Oh My God, looks like this city hates left turns 🤭😱💀

I feel bad for all of the semi truck drivers that will have to navigate the mini-roundabouts

316 construction is horrendous. Thank you no one asked for this dumb idea

it saddens me how MNDOT listen to no one at the meetings, and proceeded with the plan they wanted. I attended every meeting meeting, and they "listened" but never did anything. A roundabout on 61 / 316 is all that is needed. Thanks for wasting tax money.

I live in one of the developments over on this side of town. Been in Hastings now for nearly 14 years. What I am left dumfounded by is that there is nothing being done to the merge into 61 from 316 (where there have been TWO deaths and innumerable crashes). Further more it seems like no consideration has been given to future traffic needs of our city. What happens when more developments are put in over here? If this was the plan why not double lanes in both directions?

leave it to the government to totally drop the ball.

I think there is a need for stop lights. Trying to get across there at certain times of the day is IMPOSSIBLE!!!

Ok listen as a delivery driver in that town, the giant median in the middle is a horrible idea. I don’t want to have to go a mile up the road and do a u turn just to deliver a pizza to a house on the left

Finally!!!

They rename the title after modern day problems need modern day solutions

It didn't make anything better

How many accidents have there been to warrant this?

Heading up north this morning, had a truck trailering a boat jump right out in front of me at Viking Blvd, and cut over two lanes to get into those U-turn lanes. I was on Hwy65 doing 65 mph, and had to hit the brakes hard. People aren’t going to wait at those red lights, and will take chances when in a hurry. It’s only a matter of time. Someone’s gonna cause a big wreck. Brilliant!!!!

Your tax dollars at work!

If you thought Minnesotans complained before about this intersection..........

A bridge would be a proper, long term solution. Too bad MN can't allocate the funds to a real solution. Just like their silly cloverleaf interchanges. A cheap and poor solution to traffic congestion.

Makes less sense than daylight savings. MNDOT, maybe shed some light on this? Or are you too busy justifying $7 million roadside rest rooms?

The extra light added in ~100 yards or so *before* getting the chance to turn right (eastbound) onto Viking totally baffles me.

Just went through this intersection this morning for the first time. A friend of mine stated that "this will make the news for the worst intersection of all time." I thought he was exaggerating just a little.... but NOPE. It is the absolute dumbest thing I've ever seen in road design before. Period. Full stop (literally !).

This will cause more accidents lol

Now that's dumb.

I feel dumber after watching this

I love how they try to sell this as you come up to all three lights and they all turn green nearly immediately. How far from reality can you possible be! I was not even aware that this was being done until I saw the sign. I actually have to work for a living. I am LIVID! MDDOTVIS your response doesn't even recognize that it is already a stop light controlled intersection NOT a minor intersection. I still cannot believe that someone thought this was a good idea for a stoplight controlled intersection!

WHAT A DISASTER THIS WILL BE!!!!

This is a horrible thing that they could ever do. They say that they have done the research and that we had plenty of times to go to the council meetings. But they didn't take into the fact that some of us weren't around during those times and that we were FORCED to move to this area and had no idea that is was coming. Not to mention that the only signs of the construction going on is north of sims and south of 85th. If I never went past that area no one would know it was happening. SO that's a cool move as well, not. here are the problems I see with this 1. Work commute time is going to be longer for everyone. Why do I have to go north any amount if I need to go south? Talk about a waste of gas. 2. Emergency vehicles and big truckers. How are they going to get to where they need to be with all these extra blocks. My house went up in flames last year and I lived a few blocks from the fire department. Now I have to wait longer to watch my house burn before my eyes because they need to find a way to get here in this maze. and Semi trucks CAN do U-turns, yes. BUT they are wide and need so much room to do it. 3. The snow plows, Have done a wonderful job this year, yes, but I have noticed that those areas are last concern and never got cleaned till the very end. 4. Part of their research said that this type of stuff worked well in other states and well, those states aren't this state. I've lived here my whole life and Minnesota sucks. Especially when it comes to driving. 5. From what I recall, I could be wrong, crossing so many lanes too fast it illegal and yet here they are making that the only way to get around any more. Why don't they change the law that if I am going to make a right turn I must be in the leftmost lane and change lanes last second cause that's what it looks like? 6. It is, from personal experience, so much easier to cross traffic when I can keep my wheel straight and go straight through the intersection not when I have to account for speed to merge and to turning and praying that my car won't fly off the road, especially when it's raining or snowing. I honestly have yet to see anything good come from this decision. I personally can't stand driving in complicated intersection and I loved going to oreillys on 157th and central but I hate the intersection on 65 and the ones if I was to take the back road, yeah that's a personal opinion, but it doesn't change the fact that now they just lost a dedicated customer because of the way they are designing the roads. Like i mentioned before I'm new to the area and boy was i so excited to find that I could go south just a little and be at a movie theater but now that they messed up the roads well, it's not worth it for me to go south to see the movie and go south some more to make a u-turn to come back north to come home. So the movie theater can thank MNDot for a customer that they were going to have but now won't. And I've been dying to see what they've done with the place since I see they remodeled. Never saw it before but I guess I won't get to see it now either. I can't be the only one who feels this way and If I am then I guess that's unimportant. The only good I could see is if MNDot is going to start paying for our gas and commute since it's going to take a whole lot longer to get to work and places that we need to be. But that isn't going to happen cause they will waste all their money doing shit like this only to be putting it back many years down the road. Took them 15 years to put my childhood neighborhood back to the way it was before they messed it up with their "it will work better" construction. Very disappointed in MnDOT and their lack of research and knowledge for the area and comparing us to states that don't get things as we do.

This is the worst thing I’ve ever seen please don’t do this!!!

Is this a "No turn on red" ??? Otherwise this will be suicide

I've seen a lot of bad traffic solutions for supposedly dangerous intersections, but this is the WORST solution I've ever seen! MNDOT's excuse for creating this disaster is that some people complained that the time allowed for vehicles on Viking was not long enough for all the vehicles to get through the light at highway 65. One simple and far less expensive solution would be to extend the time for the green light for those on Viking, so more vehicles could get through the light. Now those traveling on Viking will have to wait longer at two lights, possibly three, instead of just one, which will frustrate and anger many more people! They will also have to travel a mile or more out of their way, just to continue on Viking or to turn left onto highway 65. I noticed there are new buildings being built near that intersection, which will soon increase the amount of traffic at this intersection. What idiotic solution will MNDOT come up with when this solution causes more problems than it supposedly solves? I heard that this project will cost WE, the taxpayers, $9.5 MILLION. What a TOTAL WASTE OF OUR MONEY!!!

Now that this is done, and I've driven through and over the new alignment, I can say that the new alignment is definitely worth the drive. The bridge is a little unnerving the first time though. The new pavement is nice. The old alignment was definitely not maintained very well and rather steep.

How stupid. I like how their rendition shows all small cars. What about all the commercial traffic, semi’s, dump trucks, service vehicles. Good luck to them. May have been simpler to add 5 more seconds on to the light.

How stupid do you have to be to design an intersection like this.... all you are going to do is waste taxpayer money to move the backup from Viking to a backup on 65 and Viking. Do you even know why people complain about that intersection? The lights on Viking blvd are green for like 5 seconds. You can get maybe 3 cars through the intersection then it’s a 3 minute wait to get another 3 cars through. You say this is the most cost effective way. When all that needs to happen is leave the Viking blvd light on 15 seconds. It’s practically free and will help with the Viking blvd backup. Sure 65 traffic would have to sit for 1 minute but that light is green long enough to accommodate. There’s no good cost effective way to solve any of these busy intersection on 65. But the little time change in the light will help. What about the truck traffic too? That’s a very busy trucking intersection. It’s just going to be accident after accident. Trucks will need to use both turn lanes to make that U turn cars will try to sneak around them it’s going to be a mess....

animation is a whole bunch of frames put together with drawings. not a picture/video getting zoomed in. just sayin

This is ridiculous. Apparently the City of East Bethel AND the state of MN love to waste money! What a waste of resources! Doing this drive EVERYDAY will cost more money for gas and wear and tear of vehicles with the extra drive time and mileage. Why do we have public city forums if you aren't going to listen to the people? I was there and the people said "NO". I remember one gentleman asked the question, "Why not just put in a turn lane?" Hello? This would have solved a lot of the problem and would have taken less time to do and less of a hassle for the public. You say it will work, and maybe it would if there weren't any semis on the road slowing down the flow of traffic so you don't get through the lights. Totally foolish East Bethel and the State of MN. You should be ashamed of the waste and the lack of support of the people.

Horrible, waste of money and if you drive this everyday it's a pain in the butt and will make me take a different path to get on 65 South from Viking Blvd East. Little kids get an engineering degree and decision makers want to try something "Fun" and this is what you get. This isn't even a problem intersection, go look at the data and there are far worse intersections on 65 than this one. Also, 10 years from now when expansion builds this part up, they'll rip the whole thing out and put a bridge in. What a waste.

We live 1/2 mile east of Highway 65 just north of Viking. Almost all of our travel involves going west on Viking, then south on 65. We will seriously consider moving if this is built! It would force us to deal with waiting on THREE traffic lights instead of one already too-long wait for one left arrow light. This intersection already offers dedicated green lights for each direction, so there is not this so-called dangerous situation of cross-traffic. This proposed idea is confusing, adds far too much time to travel, and seems like a huge wast of taxpayers' money. It seems like some are to justify their jobs by coming up with unnecessary and ridiculous configurations like this, at our expense and huge inconvenience. I can't emphasize enough how I am against this very bad idea.

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How much time is this going to add on to the emergency response vehicles trying to get to a scene of a accident or house fire? Will there be a way for them to go directly south on 65 from Viking Blvd East or go straight across Viking. I would hope they would not have to make this U turn to get through.

In response to a deleted comment:This improvement will actually make the intersection of Highway 65 and Viking Boulevard in East Bethel much safer. With an RCI, drivers from the side street only have to be concerned with one direction of traffic on the highway at a time. Drivers don’t need to wait for a gap in both directions to cross a major road. Traditional four-lane divided highway intersections have an elevated risk of severe right-angle crashes (commonly called “T-bone” crashes), especially for drivers attempting to cross all four lanes of traffic or turn left. At a traditional intersection, motorists from the side street need to look in both directions to cross a four-lane divided highway. Left turns require the same level of attention. At an RCI, drivers always make a right turn, followed by a U-turn. Motorists approaching divided highways from a side street are not allowed to make left turns or cross traffic; instead, they are required to turn right onto the highway and then make a U-turn at a designated median opening. And the traffic turning right onto the highway are controlled by a signal. This reduces potential conflict points and increases safety. Generally, the delay caused by a signal is greater than the delay caused by the RCI. Additionally, RCIs are much faster to build. They can be designed and built in approximately one year. Interchanges typically take 3-5 years. And RCIs are much less expensive to build than constructing an intersection with a traffic signal and are a fraction the cost of building an interchange. National studies show a 70 percent reduction in fatalities and a 42 percent reduction in injury crashes where RCIs are used. A recent study by MnDOT found that eight RCIs studied in Minnesota had a 100 percent reduction of fatal and serious injury right-angle crashes, a 77 percent reduction of all levels of severity for right-angle crashes and a 50 percent reduction in injury crashes. www.dot.state.mn.us/newsrels/17/06/15rci.html And finally, Reduced Conflict Intersections are not a new idea that we need to create publicity for. Minnesota has built 12 RCIs in recent years and they have been in use for a number of years in many states. Those states have experienced a drastic reduction in crashes, injuries and fatalities. As for listening to the people who actually live in East Bethel… MnDOT has held numerous open houses and presentations for the general public since the beginning of 2015. During that time we have explained the benefits of Reduced Conflict Intersections to hundreds of citizens and commuters, since these improvements also benefit citizens and visitors who travel Highway 65 on a daily basis. If you’d like more information about the RCIs being built in 2018 and 2019 in East Bethel and Ham Lake, please visit www.mndot.gov/metro/projects/hwy65rci. If you’d like to read more details information about the many safety and traffic flow benefits of RCIs, please visit: Read more about RCI benefits

wow so you have to cross two lanes of traffic? This doesnt seem great.

God when they said they were making this I was sooo scared! My imagination took over and I felt like they would make a suspension bridge 😂

Hwy 36 through oak park heights and stillwater should've been an expressway.

Question: Is the value of the ore they plan to mine worth more than the cost of building the bridge?

cool

Did you see me pulling a wheelie on my bike in the southbound lanes? Cool...

one more pretext to li,it your freedom and increase taxes!

typical blah, blah, blah...

Your vids are fantastic. Can I ask what software you use to generate the moving vehicles? Is that a V-Ray/Max plugin?

Great video. As someone who went to school in Forest Lake and now works on transportation issues, I really appreciate the work that MNDOT is doing here. These intersections were so dangerous and unfriendly for pedestrians, it is no wonder that many students chose not to walk to/from school or other destinations. I am sure this took a lot of work, and the school district should be applauded for stepping up and working proactively with the city and state on safety issues.