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Safety improvements included a roundabout to slow down speeds and a bridge over the county road.

The $22 million project at County Road 92 marked the latest effort to reduce serious injury and fatal crashes along the highway once dubbed the "Corridor of Death."

After years of calls from the community, and months of construction, a section of Highway 12 is now much, much safer, officials say.

Copy shortlink: Its not often that communities welcome the start of road construction and the traffic disruption it brings, but thats the case on a dangerous corridor in western Hennepin County. The Minnesota Department of Transportation on Tuesday began work on a center median wall on Hwy. 12 to reduce head-on collisions that have too often resulted in fatalities. MnDOT is also putting in a roundabout to make it easier for drivers to get on and off the winding two-lane ...