Counterpoint: Don't cut corners on our bicycle freeway

March 3, 2009 at 10:29PM

As Americans, we prefer to invest in meaningful transportation connections that deliver people directly, safely and efficiently to their destinations rather than in "bridges to nowhere."

The Cedar Lake Trail Extension is an important part of a regional bicycle system. Without the proposed extension, it stops short of the Mississippi River Parkway, another popular and well-traveled bike trail. It is as if I-35W was left at a dead-end just shy of its connection to I-94.

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