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Default Grant lets bike trail plan roll on

A planned 4.4-mile bike trail designed to help revitalize the Mill
Creek corridor from South Cumminsville to St. Bernard has received a
$405,000 state grant that will enable a one-mile segment to be built
along Salway Park in Spring Grove Village next year.

This bike trail, which is named the Queen City-South Mill Creek
Greenway Trail, is an essential component of a regional master plan to
clean up and beautify the Mill Creek and to pump new life into the
communities that border it.

The master plan envisions this bike trail eventually being extended
south to downtown Cincinnati and north to Butler County, linking with
major bike trails at each end and benefiting a host of northern
Hamilton County suburban communities.

The grant from the Clean Ohio Trial Fund will help pay for the
construction of the portion of the bike trail that will run from the
south end of Salway Park at Crawford Avenue to the intersection of
Spring Grove and Winton avenues. As part of this phase - which the
planners are calling Phase 3A - includes the construction of a bike
path segment from Dooley Bypass and Ludlow Avenue to the Mill Creek
Road bridge in South Cumminsville.

"It's a matter of putting the pieces into place," said Robin
Corathers, executive director of the Mill Creek Restoration Project, a
nonprofit group that is coordinating this project. "We're slow and
deliberate, but we're getting there. We feel like we have momentum
now."

Sean Logan, director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, will
discuss the grant at a press conference at 2 p.m. Monday, at Salway
Park, located on Spring Grove Avenue across from Spring Grove
Cemetery.

A 0.6-mile piece of this bike trail, already has been built. It runs
from the Dooley Bypass and Ludlow Avenue in Northside to the south end
of Salway Park.

The trail's second phase involves the construction of a segment from
the Dewey Bypass and Ludlow Avenue in Northside to the Spring Grove
Avenue bridge under the Interstate-74 overpass. That will be built
this fall.

The one-mile piece along Salway Park will be built next year.

The originally planned bike trail was going to be 3.4 miles, beginning
in South Cumminsville and ending at Mitchell Avenue in Spring Grove
Village.

But plans were changed to add a one-mile segment from Mitchell Avenue
up to the St. Bernard business district in the Vine Street corridor.
That segment and the piece from Winton and Spring Grove to Mitchell
comprise a part of the project called Phase 3B.

The construction of this last phase depends not only upon funding but
also on when the state will rebuild I-75's Mitchell Avenue
interchange. The rebuilt interchange is part of the $2 billion Brent
Spence Bridge replacement project that calls for improvement in the
approaches to the bridge on I-75 from the Kyles Lane interchange in
Northern Kentucky to just north of the Western Hills Viaduct
interchange.

The total cost of the 4.4-mile bike path is between $4.7 million to
$5.6 million. Most of the funding comes from the Clean Ohio Trail
Fund. Other funding sources include the Greater Cincinnati Foundation
and Mill Creek Restoration Project private donors.

Tim Jeckering, president of the Northside Community Council, said a
lot of pedestrians and bicyclists use the 0.6-mile piece of the bike
trail that was built last year.

"When another section is built, even more people will use it," he
said.

Cincinnati neighborhoods along the Mill Creek, which have been
struggling against blight, believe the bike trail will help attract
young residents and new businesses. Jeckering said the bike path
already has contributed to the revival of Northside, where he has
lived for nearly 30 years.

"It's a catalyst that is bringing young people into the neighborhood
to buy homes," Jeckering said. "It's a key asset for an urban
neighborhood to have a bike trail along a natural waterway. Hopefully,
they'll keep getting money to add to the bike trail."

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