Million-dollar mile: Expensive section of trail provokes varied reactions
Price tag for first section of planned 33-mile Chelatchie Prairie Railroad Trail unexpectedly high
Ray Holbrook walks his dog, Pearl, on the new Chelatchie Prairie Railroad Trail near Battle Ground Lake State Park last week. The project has cost $1,030,133 to date.
Monday, January 30, 2012
The sign at the Chelatchie Prairie Railroad Trail declares it to be nine-tenths of a mile. County officials later clarified it to be slightly longer -- 5,257 feet, just 23 feet short of a mile -- but let’s just round up and call it a mile.
Then add up what Clark County has spent so far on the railroad trail project, and call it a million-dollar mile.
The $1 million includes a $228,304 federal grant which paid for a study that launched the entire 33-mile project. The first paved mile, from design to final inspection, cost $801,829, for a total of $1,030,133.
The county acknowledges the first segment was more expensive than anticipated, but the price tag hasn’t provoked uniform reactions.
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