34th Street is now fully open from Highway 10 to Fourth Avenue South. Two lanes of travel remain open in the continuing construction north of Highway 10.

For the past four months, 34th Street has been closed for repairs to the bridge over the BNSF tracks just south of Highway 10.

No more! The busy street on the east side of Moorhead reopened to traffic Oct. 24.

The closure of the area from Fourth Avenue South to Highway 10 has bedeviled eastside residents, forcing them to take a detour to 20th Street South past Moorhead High School. Work continues on the northern section of the project, from Highway 10 to Third Avenue North, but a lane is open in either direction.

Moorhead residents rejoiced when the opening was posted on Facebook last Friday. One writer commented, “My 5-minute commute is back. YAHOO!”

Another posted, “This is starting to feel like a new city with all the new underpasses and roadway, love the infrastructure updates in Moorhead! “

Still another: “Good. Now people can stop plugging up 20th Street.”

Meanwhile, another construction-season chokepoint has also fully reopened. After summer-long work on the Interstate 94 bridge across the Red River, all lanes reopened Oct. 9. Traffic has been restricted to one or two lanes in each direction since the Minnesota and North Dakota Departments of Transportation began the project at the end of April, causing intermittent traffic back-ups and delays for its duration.