The KSTP report is wrong. The Sierra Club North Star doesn't oppose any bridge - just a big, ugly bridge:
Such a bridge would be visually massive, akin to drawing a sharp horizontal tear across a priceless landscape painting. Its unimpeded, high-speed traffic would impact the St. Croix's surrounding bluffs and water surface with high, constant levels of vehicle and roadway noise. If built as the DOTs prefer, the decision whether to establish transit service to and from the accelerating Wisconsin-side suburbs would be left to the chronically underfunded Metro Transit and the often deadlocked Minnesota Legislature. Bridge piers would massively disturb endangered native mussels and aquatic ecosystems and the Wisconsin side of the Riverway will see an explosion of housing and commercial development.
This visualization should help clear up misconceptions.
This is the scenic beauty of the Saint Croix river viewed from Stillwater:
This is what MnDOT wants to do to the river:
This is what MnDot wants to do to the river with some additional finishing touches... a few nukes and other crap favored by Bachmann:
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