Missouri Bicycle News Article

According to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article, the planned 11 mile extension of the Katy Trail on its eastern end, planned to be completed this year, will probably have to wait a while:

State parks officials wanted to have the trail's easternmost 11 miles open this fall. But waves of summer showers softened the levee over which dump trucks loaded with gravel must operate to complete the trail project.

Quinn Kellner, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources' superintendent for the trail's eastern section, was unable to say when the job will get under way but said the project will take about three months once it starts.

He said the work will begin when the levee becomes dry enough to remain undamaged while bearing heavily loaded trucks.

"We need to allow for some pretty dry conditions to set up before they haul rock," he said.

The project will complete the segment that connects St. Charles and the Machens area to the northeast, between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.

Though it's bad news the 11 miles won't be finished this fall--the good news is they will be finished within the next year or so. We've been waiting for this segment to be completed for a long time!

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