Minn. Shutdown Costs: Contractors Claim Millions Lost
MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota continues to see costs ripple out from the state government shutdown last summer as road work contractors file claims to recover millions in losses.
The Star Tribune reports that the Minnesota Department of Transportation has paid $4 million in settlements to contractors whose work was stopped during the shutdown.
Several of the biggest claims still pending total at least $5 million.
Contractors who've worked on the Lafayette Bridge project, I-35 in Duluth and the interchange of Highway 169 and I-494 have all filed claims.
MnDOT officials say 36 projects that would have been finished in 2011 had to be completed this year instead.
This includes work on I-94 between Minneapolis and St. Paul.
The costs are set to far outpace the $5 million savings from the three-week shutdown.
