Re: [Bikies] Longest bike bridge in Wisconsin coming to Dane County in 2017 | Local News | host.madison.com

Sat, 30 Jan 2016 23:14:08 -0800

Let me tell you the tale of this bridge. It's a story of how politics and power thwarted an earlier bicycle connection between Madison and McFarland. In the 1970s I lived on the east side of Madison. I organized running events and I wanted a good map of local streets, so I bought DOT's map. It showed a bridge over the Beltline at Marsh Road, a natural connection to McFarland and beyond. The problem was there was no such bridge. I called DOT and asked why they showed a bridge where there was none. I was told the bridge (which now exists) was put on the map because it was planned. But former Assembly Speaker Norman Anderson had purchased property on Marsh Road for a new home, engineered an annexation so that his property would remain in his Madison legislative district and didn't want lots of traffic driving by his new house. So no bridge for the rest of us. Until now. Because of the work of Dane County Executive Joe Parisi and his crew we now have a much better bridge coming. 

On 1/30/2016 10:45 PM, Mike Neuman wrote: -snip-

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