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Show Editorial Joggers, Bikers Need Safe Path : f .Spring is the time for jog- gcrs. They seem to be everywhere, running in their noisy stretchy nylon or skin-tigshorts fluorescent or by pants die side of the road, appearing lit your headlights when you ht lfcast expect them. Mf you're lucky, they might strip of reflective tape across their shoulders, but K$vc a more than likely the sudden sight of a jogger's backside has startled you more than once as you drove sleepily to work in the morning or home after a hard day. In fact, the phenomenon may have been even worse in desirable, but still better than a painted line, dinothing viding highway from biking dr jogging space alongside the lane of traffic. Jogging and bicycle paths take money, like all other worthy projects, but perhaps cities and the C9unty could pool their resources. Salt Lake County and Salt Lake City and Ogden have constructed biking and jogging paths, exercise courses and walking paths. Some of the projects are small, but even a mile-lon- g path is better than fighting traffic along a roadway. Asphalt paths would require little maintenance and one short path could lead, in future years, to a network of paths, providing safe recreation for hundreds. Only one biking path appears on a county master plan and it never progressed to the development plari stage. That path followed a route from Centerville to the west portion of the county and Antelope Island. That plan will, of course, not be developed as long as the rising Great Salt Lake keeps the causeway closed. However, parts of that path could be developed as well as routes in other areas. The Wasatch Front Regional Council is in the preliminary stages of development of a plan for bicycle and jogging paths in the area which includes Ogden, Davis County and Salt Lake County. In the next three months, an inventory of existing facilities and recommendations on federal regulations regarding construction of paths will be available for cities. Dawn McKinstry of the - the winter, when snowdrifts forced runners to share highway space with cars' and trucks and prompted agile joggers to leap from the soggy Shoulder to the pavement and back, making motorists wonder nervously whether that Uap might not end with the dedicated jogger beneath a Cars wheels. I Bicycle riders are nearly as ubiquitous, though more visible. Often they are also very young and unpredictable in tTjeir driving habits. iNo matter how motorists djslike them, though, runners apd bikers are becoming a permanent part of the outdoor scene. You can try to ignore them, but they dont go away, g f: Since fitness is and runners and bikers are b,ere to stayi it seems in the best interests of both d drivers and pedestrians to move the run-heand bicyclists off the highways and onto their own 0aths. Motorists would be delighted to have the highways to themselves again. Davis County is a beautiful afea, with scenic foothills and views of the Great Salt Lake Wasatch Front Regional add the Wasatch Mountains Council said the study will probably not result in recomfrom nearly every road. mendations of particular sites Roadways throughout Lay-tobest suited for paths, but Kaysville, Farmington, Centerville and Bountiful offer would provide information to cities to help them determine lovely routes for joggers, but for safetys sake, a strip of possible routes and guidelines in creating useable and safe pavement alongside the road paths. would be perfect. She noted federal money is next best thing would called be what are not available for biking paths by highway 2 engineers Class paths, which unless it can be verified the provide some type of divider paths would be used for combetween the road itself and a muting and not solely for respace along the shoulder. The creation. Funding for such divider is a curb or small projects would likely have to Berm or wall. come from local governments, I; A Class 3 path is the least particularly cities, she said. . habit-formin- long-suf-ffc'ri- fleet-foote- rs n, -1- J8I& ' Staff Photo by Rodney Wright AN UNKNOWN individual board in South Weber Wells from Utah. The deal of effort into changing Miss Wells appearance and must have done the deed after dark to boot. have since erased the addition. added a personal touch to this bill- depicting Miss America Sharlene had to put a good Sign-painte- artist-turned-vand- al S3 Letters to Editor i Ynr t A. Reserved Seat Tickets Not Needed eral Admission and let everyone sit anywhere they want! With cheaper ticket costs and less ush- ers hired, you'll save money and the fans will no longer have the The Lakeside Review encourages readers to submit letters to the editor. 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