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Williford said he first began meeting with UP officials in 2009 at the direction of former Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders. It was Sanders who announced the purchase agreement last fall and since his resignation in January has been a paid consultant on call to help to complete the deal.

The county aims to use the corridor to connect the metro area’s existing trail system with a state-owned trail now being built between Pleasant Hill and Windsor. That’s where it connects with the Katy.

Gov. Jay Nixon says that 47-mile state trail will be done by fall.

That leaves a seven-mile gap separating the state trail from the one the county plans to build on the Rock Island right-of-way. Mark Randall, city administrator of Pleasant Hill, said Friday that his community has plans to fill half of what he calls the “Greenwood gap” with new and existing trails.

He said the county has pledged to finish the connection, although the exact route hasn’t been determined.

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