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Article: Bike-pedestrian plan favoredImplementation could take some creative ideas with constraints in town's budget
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- The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
- Article date:
- July 21, 2009
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NORMAL - A bicycle-pedestrian master plan two years in the making
won the support of the Normal City Council on Monday night but that
doesn't mean it will be implemented immediately.
"The budget does not allow a lot of flexibility," said City
Manager Mark Peterson. "We could look at high-benefit, low-cost
solutions and at funding sources."
Rory Renfro, a principal member of Alta Planning & Design from
Portland, Ore., the group that helped develop the plan, said the 20-
year plan doesn't come cheap, but he offered several ideas that
could be done quickly to make the community more pedestrian and
bicycle friendly without costing too much money.
The ideas included better education on the rules ...