[IndianaTrails] submission

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Thank you,
Don Cummings
Greenwood Trails Advocacy Board
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1-5K RUN/WALK BEING HELD BY LOCAL BIZ AS  TRAILS FUNDRAISER-- Register online 
by Oct 23rd for early-bird  rate: 
Performance  Chiropractic of Greenwood is holding the first annual "Greenways 
of  Greenwood" fundraiser run/walk on October 27th in and around Craig  Park. 
 There are events for adult runners and hikers, as well as for  children.  
For all details re entry fees, registration deadlines, course  maps, etc., 
please go to:  _http://www.carpevita.org/gg.htm_ (http://www.carpevita.org/gg.htm)  
2-INDOT  NEEDS TO HEAR FROM YOU BY NOV 2ND--SOME RESIDENTS ASK SIDEWALKS  BE 
REMOVED FROM GREENWOOD ROAD PROJECT:    
Last week INDOT  (Ind. Dept. of  Transportation) held a public input meeting 
locally to get  input on the planned widening of State Rd 135 between Curry 
and Stones Crossing  roads.  All public comment, at meetings or via email, are 
being assembled  into an input "transcript" that State officials will use as 
they move forward.  It's a real chance for YOU to have input. As recently as two 
years ago, some of  that project plan did not include any pedestrian 
infrastructure alongside the  road.  But it now includes the addition of 5 foot wide 
sidewalks.   However, some residents spoke at the recent meeting to ask that 
the sidewalks be  taken out of the plan and said something to the effect that no 
one would use  them anyway.    
Related to that,  we would like to not only preserve the pedestrian 
infrastructure that is planned  but also see the planned "sidewalk" widened to 10 foot 
wide multi-use paved  pathway.  This is in direct accordance with the MPO 
(Metropolitan Planning  Organization for Indpls) plan for pedestrian 
infrastructure in the "donut"  counties. "Their" plan in Johnson county was put together by 
roughly a  dozen Johnson county residents and officials from various parts of 
the  county and designates 135 in that area as a "pedestrian corridor"--which 
means a  place that will have enough development that we need to give people 
visiting one  business by car a way to get to another one a short distance 
down  the street without having to take their car back onto 135.  And such a  
pathway also ties into countywide trail planning.    
If you support  this idea, or just want to preserve the sidewalk going in, 
please contact Rickie Clark, INDOT Public Hearings  Manager at:  
_RCLARK at indot.IN.gov_ (mailto:RCLARK at indot.IN.gov)   or  (317) 232-6601.   DEADLINE for  
public comment is November 2nd.
3-MAYORAL CANDIDATES TO BE SURVEYED IN  ADVANCE OF NOV 6 ELECTION--send us 
YOUR questions by Oct  23rd:    
The Trails Advocacy Board will be surveying the general election candidates 
in  the race to be Greenwood's next elected mayor; and we will publish their 
answers  to our questions here for you before election day.  Our questions, of  
course, will center around pedestrian/cycling infrastructure issues and  
recreation.  We intend to probe each candidate's vision and planned  approach to 
these issues. The two  candidates for mayor are incumbent Republican Charles 
Henderson and challenger  Independent David Payne.  We realize of course, that 
there are many issues  upon which one must judge candidates--not just these 
narrow issues--however, we  hope that our survey will provide you one more layer 
of detail in  making your voting choice. 
If you have a  specific question you'd like us to ask, please email it to us 
by reply  by Oct 23rd, and we will do our best to incorporate it in the  
survey.



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