State Senator Julie Rosen (R-Fairmont) this morning participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the grand opening of the new highway 14 route between Dodge Center and Owatonna. Senate Republicans delivered funding for the project in 2018, twenty-five years after its first Environmental Impact Study was completed in 1993 and twelve years after the Minnesota Department of Transportation held its first official public meeting on the project in 2006. 

“It took far too many years, but it is fantastic that the Highway 14 expansion from Owatonna to Dodge Center is complete and it is finally open to traffic. I championed the Highway 14 expansion from Janesville to Waseca many years ago as well as the plan to expand Highway 14 all the way to New Ulm. So many people have worked incredibly hard since then to reach this point. I am proud of the effort that so many officials and citizens at every level made that helped us arrive at this point. It’s a great day.”

Motorists are reminded that construction work will continue even as crews prepare to open the road to traffic. Additional work will take place during the spring and summer of 2022.