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DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT <br />City of Blaine and one in the City of Lino Lakes. The trail provides easy access from the surrounding <br />residential areas to the various restaurants, businesses and retail establishments in the cities. <br />Figures 8 illustrates the development concept for this trail. <br />The trail is proposed to be an 8 to 10 foot wide paved off-road trail. Where space is an issue, the trail may be <br />separated from the roadway through grade differentiation, by placing the trail behind a six inch curb in more <br />urban type settings where space is a premium or by creating a grade separated buffer between the trail and <br />roadway in more rural type settings. The width of the buffer would depend on the speed and type of the <br />roadway. <br />Figure 9 <br />Since the majority of the trail exists, establishment of the trail in those existing areas will be relatively easy, <br />through the installation of new directional and way finding signs along the route. The remaining sections of <br />trail will be constructed adjacent to the road but separated by a buffer, similar to Figure 9. <br />The trail is proposed to cross over Interstate 35W at County Road 53/Sunset Avenue. The current vehicular <br />bridge is a narrow two lane bridge without any pedestrian accommodations. Therefore, Anoka County <br />proposes to either include the regional trail into the bridge when the bridge is reconstructed or construct a <br />separate pedestrian bridge over Interstate 35W to provide safe crossing over the freeway. Refer to Figure 10 <br />for example of a pedestrian bridge/overpass. <br />Page 10 <br />