
Kathy Bjerke, vice president of Park Midway Bank, 2171 University Ave., in St. Paul, shows Jim Roth, executive director of the Metropolitan Consortium of Community Developers, a poster encouraging bank customers to contact the community outreach coordinators for the Central Corridor LRT Project with their questions and concerns about construction, which will begin in late summer 2010. Bjerke said the bank also encourages its customers to contact bankers about how to cope during construction, which will run through 2013. Bjerke and Roth are members of the Central Corridor LRT Project’s Business Advisory Council, which provides input and feedback to the Central Corridor Project Office staff on issues related to project design and construction mitigation issues.