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Glen Carbon may get help for bike trail

The Madison County Transit has made an offer the Glen Carbon (Ill.) Village Board can't refuse, the Edwardsville Intelligencer reports.

If MCT gets a $3 million grant from the Illinois Department of Transportation, MCT would repave the Ronald J. Foster Sr. Heritage Trail from Fire Station 1 to its current terminus at Silver Creek and construct about 1.5 miles to trail to complete it at Illinois 4 near Marine.

It would be welcome news for those of with road bikes that the Heritage Trail be repaved with asphalt. Currently, the trail is paved with an oil-and-chip surface. Because there is no motor vehicle traffic on the trail (except for maintenance and emergency vehicles), the oil-and-chip surface never gets packed down enough to make it totally safe for road bikes.

Roger 0 comments 11:15 AM