* Columbus will build the 1.1-mile section with the help of a $485,000 state grant.
By JOE WILLIAMS
Published: Friday, February 18, 2011 4:40 PM EST
Construction on a 1.1-mile stretch of the Alum Creek Trail from Innis Park to Easton likely will occur in 2012,
according to Terri Leist, assistant director of Columbus Recreation and Parks Department. Columbus City Council
on Feb. 14 voted 6-0 to accept a grant for $485,000 from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for partial
funding of the bikeway project, Leist said. She said the work is expected to cost $1.1 million. Leist said engineers
have not yet designed the project or determined which side of the creek it will be built on. “It’s not a long stretch,
but it’s one of the last parts to be complete,” she said. The segment will extend from the north end of Innis Park,
3000 Innis Road, to the Easton soccer complex on Sunbury Road, according to Brad Westall, greenways planner for
the Recreation and Parks Department. That section is one of two yet to be built that will complete a 22-mile bike
trail stretching all the way from the north side of Westerville to Three Creeks Metro Park in southeast Franklin
County, near Groveport, Westall said. A 2-mile segment by Ohio Dominican University will complete the Alum
Creek Trail. The cost and details of that project are yet to be determined, Westall said. He said he expects work on
both of those yet-to-be-built segments to begin and end in 2012’¦
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