cattlekate
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Snipped by me for brevity.Mindful of the security gap the killings have exposed along the trail system, a Trail Safety Task Force met to discuss what could be done to make the hiking paths that wind through the city and county safer.
It has been an issue that has been long overdue, nothing like this has ever happened here, and its unfortunate that we had to deal with this, said Leahy who explained its time to, take back our trail. Theyre going to be under our control again and we want people to go out and enjoy them.
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One of the most striking things to me about this case is the whole "trail system" set up. This trail encouraged people to travel narrow slivers of public (or easement) land and end up at a non-posted bridge which accessed more private land. The trail also facilitated trespass along a deadly attractive nuisance which is still liable to CSX, as far as I can tell.
I so appreciate the property maps done by sleuthers. Many of the maps are not in the Media, Maps, and Timeline thread. But recalling them, I'm just stunned how there is a trail system encouraging travel between private lands, to and across an old bridge, without clearly posting land ownership and trespass.
It might be helpful for clever mapping sleuthers to do a timeline of how this Monon High Bridge trail came to be. Were there any condemnations? Were landowners upset about increased traffic to their properties?