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  • Posted Jul 16, 2012

Your tires are begging you. Help eliminate the gravel crossings in Dallas County on the Raccoon River Valley Trail.

By The Numbers

13 - the number of gravel crossing along the Raccoon River Valley Trail in Dallas County

$2,400 - the cost to pave 1 gravel crossing

$31,000 - the cost to pave all 13 gravel crossings

2013 - when the crossings are expected to be paved

ADOPT A CROSSING

Your tires are begging you. Help eliminate the gravel crossings in Dallas County on the Raccoon River Valley Trail.

Paving the crossings will cost about $2,400 each. There are 13 in Dallas County, so about $31,000 total cost. Two crossing have already been “adopted”, so that leaves 11 or around $26,000 to be raised.

Put together a group and adopt your own crossing! Paving will be done summer of 2013. Donors will have their names listed on signs at their adopted crossing. Donations are tax deductible and can go to the Raccoon River Valley Trail Association or Dallas County Conservation.

DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE

Adoptions/Donations accepted via


This is a small cost to have continuous pavement and eliminate those annoying gravel crossings! If you love the feel of pavement gliding under your tires, donate!

QUESTIONS?

Contact Board Member Jim Miller @ Jim.Miller@morganstanleysmithbarney.com


Raccoon River Vallay Trail Association Feature

Donors have now stepped up to pay for paving six of the the Raccoon River Valley Trail’s 13 crossings of gravel roads in Dallas County. Fundraising continues to find $2,400 to pay for paving each of those intersections. Advocate Jim Miller says an Iowa DOT study recommended paving trail crossings for improved safety. But he said it’s also a matter of “having your trail remain competitive with the new trails that are being built.” Will similar campaigns be started on the RRVT in Greene and Guthrie Counties?

WAUKEE, Iowa,July 16,2012 –An effort byfrequent users of the Raccoon River Valley Trail and other trail advocates to raise enough money to pay for paving the trail’s crossings of gravel roads in Dallas County is off to a good start. Coordnator Jim Miller said Monday that several people andtwo companies have now made donations to cover the paving of six of the 13 intersections in the county. He added that he hopes sufficient funds are gathered the remainder of this year, so that the actual paving of the crossings can be accomplished during 2013.

The six donors so far are Bike World, the stores owned by Forrest Ridgway in West Des Moines, Urbandale and Ames; Carl Voss & friends of the Des Moines area; Danny & Louisa Kruzic, of West Des Moines; Dee Zee Manufacturing in the Des Moines area; Mark & Char Vukovich of Lake Panorama, and Miller and his wife Deb, of rural Waukee.

Donors will be recognized on plaques at each of the intersections.

Whetherthis effort will be extended to trail crossings in Guthrie and Greene Counties remains to be seen.

They’ve made contributinos of $2,400 for each of the intersections, which is the paving cost estimated by the Iowa Department of Transportation. Thus, it will take$31,000 to pave all 13 of themin Dallas County.

Whetherthis effort will be extended to trail crossings in Guthrie and Greene Counties remains to be seen.

Miller, a devoted bicyclist who is a member of the Dallas County Conservation Board and is also a member of the board of the Raccoon River Valley Trail Association, explained that interest in paving the crossings grewthis pastspring after the Conservation Board saw the results of a study on trail traffic control and safety. The board had requested that study from the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Traffic Engineering Assistance Program (TEAP). The study was actually conducted by the engineering firm Snyder & Associates, Inc., which has been involved in a lot of trail development cross the state. READ MORE...


  • Author: ss
  • Posted By: ss
  • Modified: Jul 25, 2012 by ss

I'll say, if the towns along the trail don't think there ia an economical advantage to the trai, and if the RRVT Assiciation can't fullfill its duties as real advocate and preasure local jurisdictions to prioritize on this then they are practically useless.

#1 - borasam posted Jul 20, 2012


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