SF 1231 – HF 1546The bill, as amended will provide only the following funds:

South Shore Boulevard Preliminary Engineering/Cost Estimate $ 30,000

Birchwood Road Area Preliminary Engineering/Cost Estimate $ 15,000

MN 244 Preliminary Engineering/Cost Estimate $ 38,000

Old White Bear Ave Partial Construction Cost $130,000

Total $213,000.

[Note – White Bear Lake has applied for a DNR grant for Old White Bear Avenue. If granted, the total funding of SF 1231 will drop to only 83,000.]

NO ACTUAL ROUTE HAS BEEN DESIGNED – WHAT FOLLOWS IS A SCHEMATIC FEASIBILITY STUDY

MOST GOVERNMENT UNITS HAVE FORMALLY ENDORSED THE PROPOSAL, BUT NONE HAS AGREED TO A SPECIFIC ROUTING OR DESIGN.

LAKE LINKS ROUTE

LAKE LINKS ROUTESTATE OF COMPLETION

When these are completed, the state of trails on the 10 miles around White Bear Lake will be:

Asphalt trails separated from traffic by a regular or surmountable curb:

67%

Marked routes on low-traffic residential streets:

14%

Paths separated from roads and in parks 12%

Other: Shoulder of Hwy 96 - 7%

COSTEstimated Cost of Projects is $4.6m to $5.5 m.

$5.0 m (This represents incremental cost of pedestrian/bike features, and does not include base cost of required

re-pavings and repairs of the streets and highways involved)

Cost estimate based on:1. Gross-up for inflation from professionally estimated study numbers in the original Lake Links Plan,

based on inflation index for non-building infrastructure projects, 2001-2017.2. Quantities and Unit Price costing based on assumed design methods.

(spreadsheet available)3. Length and square footage comparisons with recently completed Streetcar Trail extension and

planned Lion’s Park project.4. Does not include any expenditures for right of way

All methods correlated reasonably well.

LAKE LINKS ROUTE

POSSIBLE COST ALLOCATION METHODS(000)

TOTAL MNDOT MNDNR Maht Dell WBL WBtwp Birch Ramsey Private

Ash to Neptune $941 $941Neptune to StreetcarBriarwood - Street to Dwinnel $238 $119 $119Dwinnell to Echo $70 $70Echo to Peninsula $729 $365 $365Peninsula to Meadow $644 $644Meadow to Ordway $489 $244 $147 $98Ordway to Line $40 $40

Lion's Park to South Shore $215 $139 $75South Sh - Hazel to Bellaire $677 $203 $135 $338S. Shore - Bellaire to 120 $528 $158 $106 $264

Jay Street to City Line $60 $60City Line to Wildwood Beach $248 $124 $124 Tree Replacement/Amenities 124 124

$5,000 $2,193 $1,255 $243 $210 $106 $602 $392

1. $1.6 million of MNDOT share represents sidewalk replacement.2. Total state funding (DNR and DOT) of non-sidewalk replacements is 54%3. State share including sidewalks is 69%

COST RECAP(000)

MNDOT – Replace Abandoned Sidewalks $ 1,600

NEW TRAILS AND LINKS

MNDOT Contribution $ 593

MNDNR Contribution $ 1,255 State StateShare Share

Ramsey County $ 602 54% 69%

Cities With Roads/ProjectsMahtomedi $ 243

White Bear Lake $ 210White Bear Township $ 106

Private Funding – Short paths, trees, amenities $ 391

Total $5,000

Note: Mayor Nuffort, Dellwood, has proposed removal of power poles. Power pole crashes kill 1,000 people a year and these are dangerously close. Technically feasible, undergrounding MN 244 wires might cost between $800,000 and $2.5 million. Excellent idea, but separate funding would be required.

LAKE LINKS ROUTEWHEN?

2017 2018 2019 2020Lion's Park - $209

Briarwood-Dwinnell $238Separate Paths $170

Meadow-Ordway $489Birchwood/Hall $248South Shore $1,205

Ash to Neptune $941Echo to Peninsula $729Peninsula to Meadow

$644

$209 $893 $1,453 $2,313

NOTES:

1. Smaller projects first 2. Highest areas of danger a priority 3. Focus on items in Cap Plans - (Briarwood, Birchwood) 4. Major MNDOT work concentrated in 2020 - one year earlier than their current plan of 2021

5. All projects completed before 20 year anniversary of Lake Links Study.

LOCAL SUPPORT

Unanimous Resolutions of Support from the following entities;

RAMSEY COUNTY

WHITE BEAR LAKE

MAHTOMEDI

BIRCHWOOD

WILLERNIE

COMMISSIONERS FRAN MIRON, STAN KARWOSKI, WASHINGTON COUNTY

Others pending

SAMPLE PROFILE –

REPLACING (2) 12’ LANES WITH (2) 11’ LANES & 10’ SIDE TRAIL

SAMPLE PROFILE 10’ SIDE TRAIL WITH 11’ ONE WAY TRAFFIC LANE