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• Congestion Management Safety Projects which have generally lower costs, but provide a higher overall system benefit. ■ Managed Lane Vision including Tier I and Tier II MnPASS corridors. ■ Strategic Capacity Enhancements. • Due to a shift in policy direction and increased costs, 12 major projects in the 2004 plan to add general purpose highway lanes are no longer in this fiscally constrained plan. While the preservation, safety, and mobility needs of these corridors are recognized, investments in these corridors will be focused on implementing active traffic management strategies, lower cost-high benefit projects, and implementing managed lanes (such as MnPASS lanes).The mobility funding for 2015 to 2020 has been allocated to the above noted investment categories and specific projects in the plan.The 2021 to 2030 funds have not yet been completely allocated. • In response to the 2007 collapse of the I-35W Bridge, the 2008 law directed a significant portion of the new state revenue toward bridge repair and replacement by 2018. Four major regional bridges (TH 52/Lafayette,TH 61/Hastings, I-35E/Cayuga, and TH 36/St. Croix River Bridge) will be built or rebuilt along with replacement or reconstruction of many lower volume bridges. • Modifications were made to Appendix D- Functional Classification Criteria, and Appendix E—Highway Interchange Requests. Transit System Plan changes since 2004: • Changes were made to the transitway plan map (Fig. 7-43) based on results of the 2008 Transit Master Study.The Transitway map no longer labels corridors as Tier I and Tier II, but rather labels Transitway corridors according to the stage of development and potential modes for the corridor. A number of new transitway corridors are identified, including corridors that should be developed as Arterial BRT. • The Locally Preferred Alternative for the Southwest Corridor is identified as LRT with an alignment following the Kenilworth corridor between downtown Minneapolis and St. Louis Park, and continuing into Hopkins, Minnetonka and Eden Prairie. • The Union Depot in downtown St. Paul and The Interchange in downtown Minneapolis are identified as regional multimodal hubs serving the transitways. • The 2004 transit plan showed a map of local arterial bus corridors. While an updated version of that map remains, potential Arterial BRT transitway corridors are now defined as well (Fig. 7-43).