“it's been an interesting thing uh we've had a group of Staff working on it a small like Committee of Staff working on it from planning to health to Administration um and other departments um so we've gotten input from lots of places um and we're trying to we're trying to make a a good decision for the current time and this is a new thing for the state so um hopefully we we we hit The Sweet Spot”

“if we had the rehab it you can see the bridge in the background it has a steel art that right at the water line it's starting to rust so to get access to that rusted portion of the steel you'd have to remove those uh failing railings remove the street and you'd go down to basically a half Tin Can Arch and then repair it and at that point the whole bridge is ripped up you might as well put back something that meets our transportation needs for wider sidewalks buffered bike lanes and just more space for people to to use the bridge from a transportation standpoint”

“here in the western suburbs there's kind of a desert of mountain bike trails”

“we've asked the city to uh create a system that has both challenging features uh but features that also can be ridden around or can be avoided by less experienced Riders”

“it really went from solid wall of green to what you're seeing kind of today where it's um a lot of this had to be forestry mowed down um it was really the only established species in here”