Traffic

Increased seat-belt enforcement happening now

Sep 23, 2020

Driving in Greater Minnesota with the open countryside and less traffic can be a welcome contrast to the congestion of city driving. What isn’t different is the need to buckle up to stay alive. In 2019, 77 percent of the unbelted deaths occurred in Greater Minnesota. Wabasha County Toward Zero...

Bridge repair closes highway lane south of Frontenac

Sep 16, 2020

U.S. Hwy. 61 at the bridge south of Frontenac is one lane while crews repair bridge joints, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation. The project will be complete Sept. 24, weather permitting. Traffic signals will be used to direct traffic in a single lane through the project....

County announces road closures

Aug 26, 2020

Three roads in Wabasha County are planned to be closed to traffic on Monday, Aug. 31 for concrete repairs, according ot the Wabasha County Highway Department. The planned road closures are expected to last one week. The closures are: • County Hwy. 25 from Olmsted County to Minnesota Highway 42...

Project hits milestone as Section 2 reopens

Aug 19, 2020

The third layer of bituminous paving went down Tuesday. On Wednesday temporary lines were to be painted and then, probably by early or mid-afternoon, several blocks of Highway 61 were expected to reopen in downtown Lake City. It hadn’t happened yet as of this writing, but if it goes as planned, it...

Highway 63 crash results in life threatening injuries

Aug 5, 2020

A crash on Highway 63 sent a 31-year-old Kasson woman to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to the Minnesota State Patrol. The accident took place at about 4:19 p.m., July 29, near the intersection of Highway 63 and 712th Street. The woman was traveling northbound in a 2003...

Paving underway downtown

Jul 29, 2020

Roadway paving on Section 2 of the Highway 61 reconstruction project began earlier this week and was expected to be complete by Saturday, officials announced in the weekly construction update on Tuesday. Section 2 is the stretch of Lakeshore Drive from Elm Street to Lyon Avenue. Rochester Sand and...

[Updated] Crossings change, plea remains the same: go slow

Jul 22, 2020

Editor's note: Since this article was published, a notification went out that the vehicle crossings have changed again. The new updates (as of July 23 at 11 a.m.) reflect those changes. Earlier this week one of the three routes vehicles can use to travel across the Highway 61 reconstruction...

Permanent light possible

Jul 15, 2020

Responding to public interest in making the temporary traffic signals at the interection of Lyon Avenue and 10th Street permanent, City Administrator Rob Keehn told the city council Monday that the city can request a study, but the final decision will come from the Minnesota Department of...

Injury accident and a new stop sign on South High Street

Jul 8, 2020

A collision between a car and a motorcycle left one person hospitalized on July 4, according to Lake City Police. The accident occurred in the 300 block of South High Street. A passenger on the motorcycle was transported to the hospital by ambulance, police said. Not long after, stop signs arrived...

Downtown access shifts as construction proceeds