Letter to the Editor: MnDOT was Forewarned about Dangers of Highway 36 and Manning

“Forewarned, is forearmed, except when one renders him/herself willfully blind to reality. The price of inaction is the loss of a life.”

On Oct. 30, 2010, as part of a series e-mail messages (see attached), I warned that the intersection of SR36 and Manning was such that: This location is one where death is waiting to claim a life, if not lives. 

My warning was ignored, despite restatement of my concerns in a series of e-mail messages end on Jan. 7, 2011 (see attached). I was clear again about the danger.

In an article published on Jan. 1, 2011, reporter Kevin Giles of the Minneapolis Star Tribune brought attention to this important issue. Yet, nothing was done.

Subsequent attempts I made to advance this issue, likewise were dismissed summarily.

Well, it seems that to my great horror, I was more right than I imagined possible just two years after I predicted what seemed as inevitable then as it did when it happened.

Here is the article written by reporter Paul Walsh of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, published on Feb. 28, 2013, reporting the death of a man at this deadly intersection earlier today. It is eerie how close to the events my predictions were.

But, did Mr. Josephson or MnDOT do anything to prevent this?

Apparently, not enough.

— Larry Green, Lake Elmo