NPR covers effort to save Boonville railroad bridge for bike/ped use
Submitted by Brent Hugh on Tue, 11/30/2004 - 8:59pm
NPR had a nice segment today (see info & listen to audio here) about the effort to save the abandoned Boonville railroad bridge for use by bicyclists and pedestrians as part of the Katy Trail (previously covered in MoBikeFed News):
With the price of scrap metal soaring on world markets, a railroad company is seeing dollar signs when it looks at an old bridge across the Missouri River. Residents now want to save the bridge, but don't know how they can come up with the $8 million its worth.
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