Hello fellow GCC members. In today's Gainesville Sun, a letter is published from David Flagg recommending a greenway between Millhopper Road and 39th Ave. Please consider expressing support for this idea. You can contact Alachua County commissioners by sending an e-mail message to: bocc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. You can also write a letter to the newspaper editor by filling out an online form: http://www.gainesville.com/article/99999999/MISC/69514377&template=art_plain or mailing a letter to: Voice of the People, The Gainesville Sun, 2700 SW 13th St., Gainesville, Fl., 32608-2015.
 
Here's a copy of the letter that appears in today's paper:
 
Greenway needed on Millhopper Road

In his Sunday column promoting bicycling, Ron Cunningham easily defends the valid role of bicycles in our community.

Bikes save gasoline, they lessen the number of combustion engines and thereby contribute to cleaner air, they contribute to health and fitness through exercise, they're relatively inexpensive to buy and to operate and they can transport us to where we want to go.

Of course cars of some sort will always be with us. Along with mass transit, they have their needed role. But for the reasons given, maximizing the use of bicycles should be a transportation planning priority for us.

This brings me to again advocate a bike and pedestrian greenway connection between NW 39th Avenue and Millhopper Road. The county already owns the right of way from NW 39th Ave at 83rd Street north to Millhopper Road at NW 88th Street. Such a greenway would encourage bicycling and walking to Santa Fe Health Care's responsibly planned development as well as promote bicycling to and from Santa Fe College and any future Rapid Transit System terminus in this growing area.

An additional benefit of this greenway would be the preservation of Millhopper Road and its official designation as a county Scenic Road, as well as its being a heavily used bicycle route.

David Flagg,

Gainesville

 

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