ACTION ALERT - NW 26th Street

Posted Aug 10, 2008
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Another public meeting this Wednesday (Aug 13th) to discuss the NW 26th Street project. 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Can't come? Please email your comments TODAY!

PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING NW 26th Street (Ankeny to I-80 to Des Moines connector) Range of Project Alternatives WHEN: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM WHERE: 2008 Forest Avenue Des Moines IA, 50311 (Accessible by DART Bus Route #4) WHAT: A public meeting to discuss the NW 26th Street project. TWO WAYS YOU CAN HELP This is your chance to speak up, be heard, and help facilitate change in Central Iowa. We encourage you to attend the meetings, ask questions, and voice your opinions.

Attend the meeting Interested citizens will have the opportunity to voice your opposition this unneeded and expensive project. It's also essential to re-affirm public opposition for negatively impacting our recreational areas!
Email of fax your opinions BEFORE August 13th to: Jamie Tunnel, Snyder and Associates 2727 SW Snyder Blvd. Ankeny, IA 50023 Email: jtunnell@snyder-associates.com Phone: 515.964.2020 Fax: 515.964.7938 Please CC in this group too aconnol@co.polk.ia.us; countyboard@co.polk.ia.us; james.rost@dot.state.ia.us; philip.barnes@fhwa.dot.gov The emails are for Agela Connolly, District 5 Supervisor for Polk County, the Polk County Board of Supervisors general email, James Rost, Director of the Office of Environmental Services in Ames and Philip Barnes, Federal Highway Division Administrator in Ames. All emailed and faxed comments will be compiled prior to the meeting.

DETAILS The project would expand Northwest 26th Steet into a four-lane connector from Southwest Oralabor Road in Ankeny to Interstate Highway 80, build an interchange at I-80 and create a new road from I-80 to Euclid Avenue in Des Moines. If this new street project goes in it will affect these recreational areas in many negative ways;

Neal Smith paved trail
Sycamore Mountain Bike Trail
Trestle to Trestle Trail
Des Moines River Water Trail
Several wetlands
Diverse wildlife areas

In a nutshell this project includes extending Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway to the interstate and making 26th street a 4-lane highway and adding a new interstate entrance and exit ramps. NW 26th Street FLYER This issue has been successfully opposed in the past, however the "powers that be" continue to pursue this proposal to build a 4-lane "elevated" road through the greenbelt, wetlands, and across the river, to connect to I-80. Click on the different colored lines and areas to see a currentand proposed status.
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