Trail System Still Growing
By Jean Clark, Downtown/Heart of Missoula Neighborhood Advocate
Great news this week about our beloved Kim Williams Trail that runs through the heart of my neighborhood. I received this from Bob Jaffe, one of our local city council members from Ward 3.
“In Conservation we approved a contract for about $500,000 to build the section of the Milwaukee Road Trail between Russell and Reserve. Here is a link to see the preliminary drawings:
http://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/DocumentView.aspx?DID=3789
Pretty soon the trail will run all the way from Grove Street to the end of the Kim Williams Trail and then it will loop around the Canyon River Golf Course, under the highway, back across the tracks and then to the old tunnel. A few more years down the road there will be a bridge on the other side of the tunnel connecting it to the new state park on the other side of the Clark Fork. Maybe by then we will also have figured out how to get the bridge that goes from Grove Street across the river to the Mullan Road area. I’m sure we are looking at a decade or two before we see all this. “–Bob Jaffe
I have to think this is only going to add to the transportation options in and out of my downtown neighborhood and make it much more bike and pedestrian friendly for more people in our city. It sounds like soon you’ll be able to go from East Missoula to Reserve St and do it with your stroller, your wheelchair, your bike or on your own two feet much more safely and along the scenic river corridor. This main artery will connect so much of our community, it’s a real asset to us all and something to truly be proud of.
