Update: January 17, 2023
Ward County and the City of Minot have teamed with NDDOT to apply for USDOT’s Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) Grant program. The Minot’s 2035 Transportation Plan, Ward County’s Transportation Plan, and the recently completed SW & SE Connector Corridor Study have all laid the groundwork for multimodal connections southwest of Minot. This project, we’ve coined “Minot’s Accessible, Growth-driving Intermodal Connector (MAGIC), will improve safety and reliability for transportation in our fast-growing community, specifically on the existing US Highways 2, 52, and US 83. Alternative routes developed will support our local economy by improving connections to local businesses, industry, agriculture and access to our state-of-the-art Trinity Hospital opening in 2023. The RAISE planning grant would allow Ward County, City of Minot, and the NDDOT to continue the planning for both Phase I and II of the connector corridor. This would consist of environmental analysis, equity analysis, community engagement, feasibility study, cost analysis and other preconstruction activities for the projects with the goal of having the projects at about a 30% design. Study Area Map