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Will new City Council scrap road diet? (1/13/2021)   The Broadway road diet — a plan to re-stripe Broadway, converting it from four lanes to three — was a hot topic in last fall’s Winona City Council election, and now the new City Council could very well stop the project in its tracks. First proposed in 2015 following a series of pedestrian accidents on Broadway, the road diet would repave Broadway from Sioux Street to Mankato Avenue and re-stripe the road so that it only has two travel lanes, while adding one center left-turn lane. The project would also update...

Peterson’s eight years as mayor (1/6/2021)   When Mark Peterson took office as mayor of Winona in 2013, he didn’t wait long before trying to convert a campaign promise into reality. “It’s our only park along the river,” Peterson said of Levee Park. “It’s our only way to connect with the river … This is the front door to the community.” Peterson’s goal of redesigning Levee Park didn’t come to fruition until his second term, but the city got it done, and the project was part of a broader trend of increased investment in parks and arts projects and ...

Winona OKs roundabouts, new budget (12/23/2020)   Here come the roundabouts. In a 5-2 vote on Monday, the Winona City Council signed off on the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s (Mn/DOT) plan to construct four roundabouts on Mankato Avenue. That includes a traffic circle at Highway 61 and Highway 43, which will be one of most, if not the most, heavily traveled in the state. Some citizens railed against the proposal, arguing that the roundabouts would cause greater delays, lead to more accidents, or cause confusion. However, Mn/DOT traffic engineers said detai...

Winona OKs roundabouts, new budget (12/23/2020)   Here come the roundabouts. In a 5-2 vote on Monday, the Winona City Council signed off on the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s (Mn/DOT) plan to construct four roundabouts on Mankato Avenue. That includes a traffic circle at Highway 61 and Highway 43, which will be one of most, if not the most, heavily traveled in the state. Some citizens railed against the proposal, arguing that the roundabouts would cause greater delays, lead to more accidents, or cause confusion. However, Mn/DOT traffic engineers said detai...

Winona OKs roundabouts, new budget (12/23/2020)   Here come the roundabouts. In a 5-2 vote on Monday, the Winona City Council signed off on the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s (Mn/DOT) plan to construct four roundabouts on Mankato Avenue. That includes a traffic circle at Highway 61 and Highway 43, which will be one of most, if not the most, heavily traveled in the state. Some citizens railed against the proposal, arguing that the roundabouts would cause greater delays, lead to more accidents, or cause confusion. However, Mn/DOT traffic engineers said detai...