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Trails win big over streets in metro funding shift
Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett and the Corridor Metropolitan Planning Organization flip the metro budget so 80 percent of federal transportation funds go to trails, boosting the CEMAR Trail from Cedar Rapids to uptown Marion and promising trail completion by 2018. The move reframes regional transit priorities.
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Cedar Rapids
Ron Corbett
Corridor Metropolitan Planning Organization
CMPO
Corbett
Hiawatha
Robins
the Gazette
Cedar Lake
Marion
First Avenue East
CMPC
Brandon Whyte
Whyte
Kesha Billings
Billings
Cemar
20Th Street
Terex
Mount Mercy University
Scot Reisinger
First Avenue
Thomas Park
Uptown
Home Depot
Indian Creek
Linn- Mar
Linn County
Grant Wood Trail
Edgewood Road
O Avenue NW
Blairs Ferry Road
Highway 30
Steve Hershner
Linn County Trails Association
The
Trails Association
Rails To Trails
Iowa
Cedar Valley
Hershner
City of
Lu Barron
Ben Rogers
Brent Oleson
Oleson
Madison
Wis
Des Moines
Linn
Johnson
Black Hawk
Ely
Johnson County
Squaw Creek Park
Metro
Area Planning Agency
Cedar River
Thomas
Metro Planning Agency