Adrian's Island riverfront trail project moving forward in Jefferson City | Central MO Breaking News

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Access to Adrian's Island may be just around the corner.

Jefferson City officials have been working since last summer on a project that revives the long-discussed goal of accessing Adrian's Island along the Missouri River, something that started again after city resident B.J. DeLong donated $50,000 to pay for preliminary design work on a bridge to access the property.

Since the summer donation, local engineering company Bartlett & West has been doing preliminary design work on bridge options to the property, ultimately settling on a preferred option of a bridge beginning between the Senate garage and Veterans Memorial with a price tag of $2.99 million. The trail would be a 10-foot-wide concrete path and abide by all requirements laid out in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

Adrian's Island is actually a peninsula between the state Capitol building and the Missouri River that developed as settling sand and river bottom accumulated from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' rock dikes built in the 1960s to maintain a 9-foot minimum channel depth.

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Adrian's Island riverfront trail project moving forward in Jefferson City | Central MO Breaking News

MoBikeFed comment: This is a major advance for Jefferson City's trail system, and dovetails nicely into the ongoing plans for a citywide bicycle plan.

CAMPO, the regional planning organization, is currently working on a regional bicycle and pedestrian plan. This trail could be an important part of that regional plan.

More about the Capital Area Bicycle & Pedestrian Plan here:

http://www.jeffersoncitymo.gov/government/long_range_transportation_plan...