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_ ...„.„-.____------'7,gi‘...- Soaring temperatures the evening of June 11
caused pavement on Highway 36 to buckle on the
' t, border of Maplewood and Little Canada at Edgerton
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= �,. - Drivers reported the buckle in the westbound left
lane of the highway to the Minnesota Department
of Transportation just before 7 p.m.,according to a
submitted photo MnDOT spokesman.
The rear end of an SUV is pitched into the air on Traffic camera footage from that time shows cars
Highway 36 June 11 as seen in footage from a
Minnesota Department of Transportation traffic camera. see Pavement on page 7
Review
Pavement...
continued from page 1 dents on Interstate 90 and
Highway 169 in the south
leaving the roadway after central part of the state.
driving over the ramp-like The release explained
buckle,which coincided that roadways are cut into
with a day-time high tem- segments creating spaces
perature in the area of 91 between them to allow for
degrees Fahrenheit. expansion on hot days.
The MnDOT spokes- "Sometimes that space
man said the buckle,tech- is not enough and when
nically in Maplewood,was that happens the pave-
fixed shortly after it was ment buckles or blows
reported. up,particularly when the
A MnDOT press release pavement is older and
from its Mankato office on weaker,"the release says.
another very warm day, "The warmer the tempera-
June 10,told drivers to be ture,the more the pave-
alert to the possibility of ment material expands."
"blow-ups."The release
noted reports of such inti- —Mike Munzenrider