A U.S. Highway 2 bridge just west of the West Burdick Expressway intersection is scheduled for rehabilitation in 2022. Improvements also could be made to the intersection. Jill Schramm/MDN

Three bridges and two intersections in Minot will be seeing improvements in future years.

The City of Minot and North Dakota Department of Transportation are making plans for repairs in 2022 to the Burdick Expressway Viaduct, just west of the zoo; the U.S. Highway 2 bridge near the intersection with Burdick Expressway West; and the U.S. Highway 83 Bypass bridge at Fourth Avenue.

The state also has identified a need for improvements to address crashes at the Evergreen Avenue/U.S. 2 and West Burdick/U.S.2 intersections.

The Burdick Expressway viaduct, which carries traffic over CP Rail, was constructed in 1979. The rehabilitation project is in the concept stage, with costs estimated at $2.35 million for engineering and construction. The city’s estimated $234,808 cost share with the state and federal governments likely would come from Hub City dollars from the state.

Both the rehabilitation of the U.S. 2 and Bypass bridges would be federal and state funded. Houston Engineering has been selected for the engineering work on the three bridge projects.

State and city engineering staff also have been studying the U.S. 2 corridor from Burdick Expressway to the 16th Street Southwest Interchange for several years to look for safety improvements. The intersections at Evergreen Avenue and at Burdick have consistently been listed in the top 50 most hazardous intersections in the state.

There have been 39 crashes at Evergreen/U.S. 2 from 2015 to 2019, according to the Department of Transportation. Four resulted in incapacitating injury.

Engineers are looking at a change in traffic pattern changes on Evergreen that would divert motorists to the 16th Street interchange for some movements.

The intersection of West Burdick and U.S. 2 has been the site of 24 crashes from 2015 to 2019 – about half of them rear-end crashes. Six of those crashes involved injuries.

Any intersection improvements likely would be scheduled for 2022.