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Manning Looking Forward To Completion Of Safe Route To School Trail

The community of Manning has been keeping close tabs on a major project on the east side of town as workers make strides nearly every day on the Safe Routes to School portion of the city’s trail system. City Manager, Dawn Rohe, says they had hoped the project would be completed by the end of next week, but that was before three inches of rain over the Labor Day weekend. Even though the construction can’t move along as quickly as they want, Rohe says, technically, they are still not behind schedule.

Directly south of where the trail crosses over Highway 141, workers have installed a new pedestrian bridge through a pasture area owned by Weise and Sons Good Doin Bulls. Rohe said Gene Weise donated a trail easement for this section of the project as adding to the roadway was an option eliminated early on.

Rohe said that a walk-through has been scheduled for Sept. 17, but with the rain, it would be safer to say the route will be completed by the end of the month. In addition to the trail work, there will be push-button, rapid-flashing lights installed on Highway 141 so that motorists will be aware someone is crossing the roadway. This portion is considered to be Phase 3 of the Manning Trails project. The community is still fundraising for the next phase, which will be the purchase installation of a bridge on the park/hospital connector with an estimated cost of $390,000. Rohe said it is scheduled to be completed in 2017, but if all went better than expected, it could be done next year.

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