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I'm sad to see the vitriol this road project is causing, and, being a direct recipient of a share of it, I would much prefer to see the facts in this case be the focus. The one question no one seems to be asking is this: What are the reasons the 169 Task Force is being so insistent? What is the hidden agenda? I keep asking if the placement of the Mesabi Bike Trail is involved, and the fact that the Task Force promised a portion of the existing 169 roadbed years ago. THAT is why they are so dead set - the southerly route means unimpeded bike trail. Oddly, when I make these assertions, no one from the Task Force steps in to deny that agenda. Why? We can solve this all in an afternoon by have a MNDOT, engineer, the EPA, The DNA, the task force and concerned citizens WALK the southerly route to see for themselves the implausability and the obstacles, the cliffs to be blasted and the environmental uproar all would cause. At this stage, with the legislative ammendment stunt pulled by the task force, THEY are the hold up on the road project going through in the manner and timeliness most beneficial, sane and safe - as long as they draw this out, more accidents are waiting to happen.

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