US-12 Drivelapse: Delano to St. Paul, MN

A quick drive on US-12 from Delano, Minnesota through some of the western suburbs of the Twin Cities to St. Paul.
Passing through Delano, Independence, Maple Plain, Orono, Long Lake, Wayzata, Minnetonka, Golden Valley, St. Louis Park, Minneapolis, and St. Paul.

This video shows the original 150+ year old route of US-12 through Orono and Long Lake, which will soon be changed to a different route.

US-12 has some sentimental value to me because I used to drive it everyday from Minneapolis to Litchfield for a few years back in my courier driver days for Courier-Dispatch, and also for three years from Minneapolis to a former job in Long Lake. I'm sure this means nothing to most of you, but it answers the question, "What's the point of this video?"

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Travel & Events

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• US-12
• Drive
• timelapse
• time
• lapse
• drrivelapse
• st
• paul
• minneapolis
• st.
• louis
• park
• golden
• valley
• minnetonka
• wayzata
• delano

[jimritem]

Very cool! I like that there's an historic component in that the route of Highway 12 will change as early as October, 2008. I drive through from Delano to Minneapolis on Highway 12 just about every Saturday.

[ShingleCreek]

Thanks. I'm glad you liked it.

[eluko79]

Awesome! Cool you added the populations. Perfect time of day to do it too. btw. Was that construction in Wayzata for the new hwy 12?

[ShingleCreek]

Thanks. And yes, the construction in Wayzata and east of Maple Plain are the beginning and end of the new section of 12 that will bypass the original route through Orono and Long Lake.

[rayofminneapolis]

Absolutely cool how the white lines run backwards!

[ShingleCreek]

Hey that is cool. Maybe next time I'll try to do that on purpose. lol

[AaronOfMpls]

@spookymonk10 eluko79 has a more recent video of Hwy 12. Copy and paste "l6-iKwN9G9I" (without the quotes) after the "v=".

[row123ie]

Very cool! Grew up in Delano.

[AaronOfMpls]

@kevrosmith There are parts of the US where towns are smaller and more spread-out, though. Also, Delano is on the western edge of the Twin Cities suburbs, which is why the towns are so close together. (They're contiguous from Delano on in -- look at it in Google Earth with city boundaries turned on [Layers > More > US Government > City Boundaries].)

[AaronOfMpls]

@TaGaMeMNoN1983 Our freeway network is pretty dense for an area our size, even in the US. The few times I've visited Chicago and Milwaukee, it always surprised me how few non-Interstate freeways they had, compared to here in the Twin Cities.

[PirateSygnal]

Wow. Really cool. Nice work.

[MHN91]

Good piece of video (nice music choice too). I've done the time lapse driving thing too, so I get a kick out of watching others videos-particularly fellow Minnesotans driving familiar roads.

[7855waldo]

Are we THERE yet!?

[appry78]

The metro area of minneapolis is around 3 million

[riolindasucks]

kevrosmith - Based on your comment and this video, it is easy to see why we have 305,000,000 people in our country with the same land area as yours. The US is only 80% urban. That leaves a rural population of 61,000,000, 3x your county's entire population!

[spookymonk10]

No that the new road is done...give it another go. It would be cool to see the differance

NICE WORK