The Minnesota Highway Department has been credited with numerous works listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Two years later, the Minnesota Department of Public Safety was established and took over the Highway Patrol and Driver's License Bureau.

The department expanded use of the signs after Amber Alert legislation allocated funding for larger networks.

Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) station KTCI channel 17 has been used for many years to display weather-related information that is funded by MnDOT.

The department also had a long-standing partnership with KBEM-FM radio (88.5 FM) in Minneapolis to relay area traffic information, although that relationship is coming to an end.

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