On 8/28/2017 7:03 PM, AMuzi wrote:
On 8/28/2017 5:15 PM, Doug Landau wrote:
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/loc...9ed31bc57.html



"$8 million, 2.5-mile"

That would be a total embarrassment if anyone on the Dane County Board
could feel shame.

(we are just over the County line from them now.)

I am repeatedly astounded by the price tags on bike facilities. I guess
I'm just out of touch with the cost of things.

But I was on a village committee that got three federal grants for three
different bike or pedestrian projects. Ultimately we had to forego the
last one, for what would have been a nice creekside walking (not bike)
path. It's a long and sordid NIMBY story.

But the head of our Streets Department advised me that for the next such
project, just let them do it without a federal grant. He felt the
federal requirements added so much cost that the village would come out
cheaper just doing the job entirely with local money.

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- Frank Krygowski