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<br /> MView council to vote on issue Feb. 24
<br /> BEN CHANCO STAFF WRITER on the project, originally targeted for
<br /> completion in October 1997.
<br /> Mounds View residents will find out McCarty, who was elected in
<br /> = in two weeks if a pedestrian bride November, said he put the issue back
<br /> over Highway 10 at Long Lake Road on the agenda because he has a lot of
<br /> ' will be built as planned.
<br /> concerns about the source of funding ,
<br /> z The •council, after listening Monday and the previous council's lack of pub- l
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<br /> night to residents both for and against einvolvement in the project.
<br /> the bridge, set a Feb. 24 meetingfor I d just as soon cut my lossesd. ," he
<br /> making a decision about the projet, said
<br /> "This will give us the o But Council Member Julie Trude,answer a lot of questions' Mayor who was a member of the council that
<br /> Duane McCarty said. .' approved the bridge, said public hear-
<br /> ings were held.
<br /> A previous council approved con- ,
<br /> • struction of the bridge using480 000 I cant sit here and listen to you
<br /> -` from a federal grant and $120 000 chastise the last council," she told the
<br /> from the city. Thcity also agreed to mayor.
<br /> pay $70,000 for design and engineering When the mayor asked for corn-
<br /> services; so far, $55,000 has been spent meats from the audience, the council
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<br /> s,_ Julie Olsen presented a petition with about 95 signatures ,. 1
<br /> opposed to building the bridge, and those signing included ' :.
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<br /> .; , -, dente for seniors located at the proposed bridge site, said she .it:4 s s;
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<br /> would like to have the structure built for safetyreasons. ,na ""» =_ '
<br /> "Right now, the only way I canget across Highway 10 is to go ..�` - - s
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<br /> she said. "We have a lot of people in wheelchairs who can't go '" ,,,,
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<br /> Russell Nordstrom said he was not in favor of the project `-'14'"''-.--:;-- ` '
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<br /> - "It's not going to be used that much anyway," he said. "Kids 1,41-'''',:'-•-:,,,,;,;:-.;,‘,•-:r 1L -- `,.'
<br /> .- .�= will still cross the highway because they won't walk the extra ''K 7= : =
<br /> mileage." » _K
<br /> K Tamara McBride, 12, who attends Edgewood Middle School „ ;= j '
<br /> i near the site, said she and her friends spent a lot of time t` s r
<br /> crossing Highway 10 to get to the library.
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<br /> she said. "I'm concerned about the kids and the elderly." _-,-.,-1-_.--,,,. ..i--'• '
<br /> --.-,,,,,,-..,.a. Ardis Noonan, Ramsey County Library Board Member, said �. ?a t{ `r ° i (..,. -.1
<br /> r_ her board supported the bridge as an intelligent approach to get ,` --:;-4.-,4,'; ',,' •'� w-.,-„,- f-
<br /> ,- - : �`l people across Highway 10. ..-,-,,,-,;.4.. »
<br /> "We are very dismayed that this is even under question," she; 4"` ; ,,,r i4irgt . 1
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