Make bikes possible, make dumping hard

I support anything that separates the bikes/pedestrians and cars. Therefore, I like the plans to support a 10-foot wide multi-use trail on the river side of the roadway, by cutting the roadway into the bluff. I also like the plans to make this area bike/pedestrian exclusive, no cars.

I don't support the idea of having a shared bike and car roadway. The speed limit might nominally be 35 mph, but the actual speeds will be up to 50 mph. This is too much to support bikes and cars on the same roadway.

I don't like the idea of completely re-routing the road by cutting it several hundred feet into the bluff. There is a certain element of having a nice little road winding along the river, and moving it several hundred feet away defeats that.

As a volunteer for Project Blue River Rescue/Missouri Stream Team, I would very much like to see efforts made to make it harder to dump trash on Blue River Road. Before it was closed, I helped pull up a whole bunch of tires from the land below the retaining wall, just south of Hickman Mills Drive, at one of the PBRR cleanups.

This might look like a wall or other barrier between Blue River Road and the river. It might look like frequent street lights, to dissuade illegal dumping. It might look like cameras installed on a temporary or permanent basis to catch illegal dumping. It might look like restricting this area to a bike/pedestrian trail, with bollards and fences to stop vehicles from accessing the area. It might be a combination of approaches. Whatever it is, it should be hard to dump trash along the river.