Private Sidewalk Saves Bike Trail

[David Merrill]

For many years the Rock Island Railroad Company ran trains through Colorado Springs. When they gave it up METRO grabbed it by escheat (I think). The City built a great bicycle trail on the land but pretty quick politicians wanted an east-west thoroughfare for trucking traffic and were going to get the referendum passed until a clever attorney advised the neighborhood to pool interest in accessing the public path via a Private Sidewalk.



It was pretty windy but I stopped and got a record anyway. There are some pretty good lessons to be learned from this I believe.