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Article: Connecting the dots on Bugline Extension will end awkward detour on popular trail
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 28, 2009
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Sussex -- Bike riders, joggers and other users of the Bugline
Trail soon will discover that a major obstacle has been removed from
the 12-mile path.
Village and county officials have reached an agreement with the
owner of the former Mammoth Springs Canning Co. site to open the
trail through the 10-acre industrial site.
For many years, trail users have been forced to circumvent the
former factory site by taking awkward detours along Main St. or
Highway 74.
The obstacle sits almost exactly at the midpoint of the popular
county-owned recreational path, which extends between Menomonee
Falls and Merton.
"It's always just been the missing link," county park system
manager Duane Grimm said of the ...