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From YouTube: Bike Path Bridge Ribbon Cutting 12/9/16
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Bike Path Bridge Ribbon Cutting 12/9/16
A
Welcome
to
the
ribbon
cutting
for
the
Columbus
road
bike
pass
/,
we
selected
the
best
weather
possible
for
you
to
attend
this
event
today.
My
name
is
Andy
stone
on
the
city
engineer
and
the
director
of
public
works
for
the
city
of
Athens
and
will
officiate
this
ceremony
today.
I
have
a
few
remarks
to
give
to
begin,
to
give
you
a
brief
overview
of
how
we
got
here
and
then
I'll
turn
it
over
to
mayor
Patterson
to
wrap
up
prior
to
actually
cutting
the
ribbon.
A
So
this
project
has
been
a
long
time
coming.
This
project
really
originated
with
a
bike
and
pedestrian
master
plan
that
was
completed
by
the
city
of
Athens
in
2010,
and
that
was
under
the
leadership
of
Chris
nicely.
At
that
time.
The
transportation
committee
chair
and
Paul
load
the
city
planner,
and
that
bike
and
pedestrian
master
plan
identified
both
successes
and
then
future
needs
for
bike
and
pedestrian
and
infrastructure
within
the
city
of
Athens.
A
One
of
the
things
that
the
master
plan
identified
was
at
the
hockey
nadina
bike
way,
which
we
all
know
and
love
and
have
had
for
a
number
of
years
here
in
Athens.
County
is
a
tremendous
resource,
but
we
wanted
to
turn
it
from
more
of
a
recreation
resource
into
an
actual
transportation
resource
and
make
it
a
usable
highway
by
corn-fed
s
tree
in
highway.
A
A
It's
over
200
feet
in
elevation
change
from
this
portion
of
Columbus
road
down
at
the
bottom,
to
the
top
of
the
hill
up
by
2nd
Street,
and
that's
a
pretty
significant
barrier
to
overcome
for
pedestrians
and
cyclists,
who
are
traveling
to
and
from
the
center
part
of
the
city,
and
we
knew
we
had
this
nice
flat
bike
way.
The
only
problem
was
there
was
a
river
in
the
way.
A
So
that
bike
and
pedestrian
master
plan
called
for
this
project,
not
necessarily
in
this
form
but
some
sort
of
connector
to
the
center
part
of
the
city
in
the
comas
Road
area.
We
applied
for
funding
for
this
project
in
2012,
but
we
were
successful
and
that
we
got
seven
hundred
thirty-five
thousand
dollars
from
odot
through
the
Transportation
Alternatives
program
and
then
another
five
hundred
thousand
dollars
from
odnr
in
the
clean
Ohio
trails
fund
and
those
two
funding
partners
are
identified
on
the
sign.
As
you
were
walking
up
to
the
bridge,
we
started
our
project
development.
A
We
initially
identified
four
different
routes
to
try
to
get
from
the
Hawking
Medina
bike
way
over
to
Columbus
road
and,
ultimately,
through
a
the
project.
Development
process
settled
on
this
bridge
in
this
route
as
being
the
most
viable.
So
we
got
everything
ready
to
go
and
junk.
Sookie
is
our
our
design
firm
and
we
got
it
all
design
and
ready
to
go
and
we
fit
the
project
and
all
the
bids
came
in
way
way
too
expensive,
but
we
couldn't
award
it.
They
were
more
than
all
over
ten
percent
over
the
engineer's
estimate.
A
A
So
in
addition
to
trying
to
squeeze
money
out
of
the
design,
we
also
split
the
project
in
the
two
different
projects:
a
bridge
project
and
a
and
a
bike
path
and
the
path
itself
and
the
city
somewhat
functioned-
is
the
general
contractor
and
if
it
wasn't
for
my
tremendous
project
manager,
an
assistant
city,
engineer,
Jessica,
there's
no
way.
We
could
have
built
this
because
we
had
to
Shepherd
two
different
contractors
who
are
both
outstanding
contractors.
By
the
way,
the
total
project
cost
for
this
project
was
200
I'm.
A
So
this
bridge
that
you
see
behind
me
is
pretty
spectacular.
I
told
Jones
Sookie
when
they
were
working
on
this
project.
That
I
didn't
want
any
peers
in
the
river,
so
they
designed
the
second
largest
trust
span
in
the
state
of
Ohio
at
240,
feet
and
I'm,
not
certain
who
the
first
one
is
but
I'm
sure
it's
not
remotely
as
beautiful
as
our
bridge
here
in
the
city
and
I.
A
A
There
are
a
million
reasons
why
we
can't
do
something,
but
it
takes
effort
and
it
takes
political
courage
to
make
big
steps
forward.
It
also
takes
money
and
I
applaud
our
City
Council
and
our
administration
for
supporting
this
project
and
moving
Athens
forward,
and
this
project
is
certainly
a
project
that
moves
the
city
forward
and
now
we
can
connect
a
portion
of
the
city
and
and
beyond
the
city
out
550
and
13
beyond
with
a
hot
pan,
india.
By
quite
where
previously,
we
had
no
access.
A
There's
several
people
to
thank
and
I'll
go
through
this
list
and
then
I'll
turn
it
over
to
the
mayor
for
his
remarks,
because
I
know
everyone's
getting
cold.
The
city
officials,
both
Mayor
Steve
Patterson
in
our
former
Mayor
Paul,
while
who
we
formulated
this
project
under
his
leadership,
Jessica
dine
he's
the
assistant
city,
engineer
and
project
manager
for
this
project,
Chuck
Nungesser,
our
city
inspector
Paul,
Mosley,
the
service
safety,
director,
Paul
Logue
city,
planner,
Shawn
Beasley,
who
managed
the
water
plant,
but
also
the
well
field
which
his
path
went
through.
A
The
clean
Ohio
trails
find
both
Dejuan
Hammonds
and
Marlon.
Holloway
were
instrumental
in
the
project
for
this
project.
We
got
easements
the
Athens
County
Commissioners
donated
an
easement,
a
set
amazed
at
Board
of
Directors
donated
an
easement
and
the
laurels
in
Athens
house,
realty
sold
the
city
and
easement
in
order
to
build
the
project.
Additionally,
ace
net
put
up
with
most
of
the
construction
noise,
specifically
director,
Larry,
Fisher,
Barbara,
volts,
volcko
and
then
the
entire
board.
We
appreciate
their
their
patients
with
construction
and
the
people
who
actually
built
this.
A
The
earth
worth
working
trail
was
built
by
Thompson
excavating.
Mike
Fisher
is
the
project
manager
and
he's
here
and
Dave
Stoker's
the
superintendent
and
then
the
bridge
was
the
rider
company
and
they're
having
their
company
Christmas
party.
No
doubt
somewhere
warm
today.
Mike
killiow
was
the
project
manager
and
Jerry.
Mcveigh
was
the
superintendent,
and
then
there
are
quite
a
few
subcontractors
as
well.
The
design
firm
is
Joan
sucky,
which
is
a
division
of
punany
Dave
Jones
is
here
today:
bill
Krause,
Vince,
Jarrett,
Adam,
burger,
Matt,
Bergdorf
and
and
the
whole
the
whole
team
hello.
A
You
I
want
to
note
Ohio,
University,
jalali,
Greg
Robertson
for
donating
portions
of
the
demolition
or
demolish
dorms
for
bank
protection.
If
you
look
down,
you
see
some
of
the
rock
down
protecting
the
bank,
not
all
of
it,
but
some
of
it
came
from
those
dorms
go
under
bomb
and
Bob
Henry
inspection
services
through
michael
baker,
jr
incorporated
and
then
as
an
immediate
geotechnical
firm
and
then
the
utility
representatives
from
the
various
companies
that
helped
us
get
clearance,
David
Rohrer
from
aep
helped
tremendously.
We
had
to
take
those
power
lines
out
of
service
back
there.
A
A
A
B
It's
beer,
tourism.
You
know
I
want
to
kind
of
reiterate
a
couple
of
the
acknowledgments
that
Andy
posted
are
presented
again:
Oh
doc,
Allen
Craig.
Thank
you,
Greg
Hoffman,
the
easements
from
a
snap
big,
thank
you
to
a
snack
for
making
that
work.
Construction.
The
earth
work
with
Thompson
engineering
are
excavating
in
writer
company
again
a
big
thank
you
about
design,
firm,
Joan,
Stuckey
and
then
I.
Think
for
most,
at
least
for
me.
B
From
my
vantage
point,
the
project
director
this
project,
Jessica
dine-
you
know
jessica,
has
been
out
here
working
tirelessly
making
sure
this
comes
in
not
only
coming
in
done
right
but
done
right
on
time
and
last
but
not
least,
Andy
stone
again,
as
our
director
of
engineering
and
Public
Works
a
big
thank
you
to
you
for
helping
to
push
this
fourth
been
a
long
time
coming.
I
want
to
share
with
everybody.
This
is
I,
don't
know.
B
Jessica
a
couple
weeks
ago,
a
week
and
a
half
ago,
I
came
down
to
just
kind
of
look
to
see
how
things
for
coming
along
and
Jesse
and
I
were
standing
down
here
on
on
the
trail
and
we're
looking
at
the
bridge
and
she's
kind
of
give
me
an
update
on
things.
The
next
thing
I
know,
Jessica
looks
up
and
I
looked
up
to
and
here's
a
pair
of
bald
eagles
flying
over
the
bike
path,
while
flying
right,
overhead
and
I
was
stood
there.
B
Thinking
about
that
over
the
past
couple
days,
you
know
the
the
bald
eagle
assembly,
United,
States,
the
symbol
of
freedom
and
I
kept
thinking.
You
know
what
the
symbology
of
that
with
this
event
today
this
trail
this
bridge
this
axis
the
spur
has
created
another
mode
of
freedom,
freedom
of
access
throughout
our
city,
I
sitting
there
kind
of
looking
and
doing
the
GPS
thing
and
kind
of
looking
at
this
with
us.
What
the
spur
represents.
It's
not
just
a
sport
that
comes
across
the
Hawking
river
and
connecting
Columbus
road
with
the
bike
path
itself.
B
It
creates,
as
I,
see
it
three
different
loops.
It
creates
a
two
point:
seven
mile
that
goes
up
to
second
Avenue
down
back
down
to
courier
and
creating
a
small
loop,
a
larger
one.
That
goes
all
the
way
on
up
to
North
Congress
and
then
go
on
down
the
richland
avenue
bridge
and
back
onto
the
bike
path
about
a
five
point:
six
mile
loop
and
then
finally,
a
loop.
B
If
you
go
all
the
way
on
down
to
stinson
avenue,
get
on
the
bike
path
down
by
will
be
our
next
two
roundabouts
in
the
city
yay
and
creates
almost
an
eight
mile
loop.
So
we've
got
this
really
cool
concentric
rings
of
connectivity
that
just
further
enhances
again
the
freedom
of
all
of
our
citizens
to
be
able
to
get
around.
The
other
thing
too,
as
any
mention,
is
with
I,
think
there
is
kind
of
a
method
to
the
madness
of
connecting
some
of
the
microbrews
together,
but
it
creates.
B
B
We're
going
to
do
some
really
cool
things
and
I
think
in
the
future,
but
at
the
end
of
the
day,
it
further
enhances
our
bikeability,
our
walkability,
and
if
we
once
again
push
the
envelope
on
becoming
a
destination
that
people
are
going
to
want
to
continue
to
come
to
athens
because
of
cool
features
like
this,
the
advantage
that
it
makes
in
terms
of
giving
people
opportunity
to
get
out
and
explore
our
wonderful
community,
the
wonderful
county
that
we
live
in,
but,
most
importantly,
the
city
of
athens.
So
again,
thank
you,
a
thought
me
further
ado.
A
Guess
here
you
wanna
help
us
string
the
ribbon
and
if
I
could
get
Dave
Jones
the
lead
designer
and
then
Mike
from
Thompson
excavating,
as
well
as
all
of
our
elected
officials,
to
come
forward.
Please
and
if
I
can
also
get
a
ski
Williams
deputy
director
for
district
10
and
Allen
Craig
is
the
LBA
coordinator
from
district
10
will
be
great.