Something I missed in the crush of events this past week: the north and south banks of the Mississippi are connected again:
Image is from the MNDoT webcam.
You don’t want to drive on it yet, naturally – but last Wednesday, the contractors did the final pour to connect the main segments of the northbound span.
The southbound span should be getting connected any day now. Expect an angry column from Nick Coleman blaming Governor Pawlenty for the delay.
For a second there, I thought you were going to make a joke about the oil spill south of New Orleans. But there, too, they think of the banks as east and west, even when they run north and south.