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 They've got some support at the City Council level. From a GCBL post earlier this week:

"When you design a bridge, you don't design it just for cars, you design it for people," Cleveland Councilman Matt Zone told ODOT Innerbelt Project Manager Craig Hebebrand at [a February 8th] Cleveland Planning Commission [meeting]. "Why should the citizens of Cleveland settle for second class? We should demand [a multi-use path on the bridge] from the design phase. We should demand something better. Let’s see what the prices come in. In Shanghai and in Portland they are designing bridges for people."

Hebebrand said it's too late from ODOT's perspective to make any changes. "There’s no way to physically amend the documents to add the addendum in time."

Planning Commission member Lillian Kuri, however, got Hebebrand to admit that there will be many addendums to the Environmental Impact Statement before the end. Adding an addendum to that EIS for a bike/ped multi-use path now should not be used an excuse, Kuri said.

Advocates agree, and we charge that we have 25 days, or 220 hours until ODOT’s imposed March 2 deadline. We also contend that where there's a will, there's a way. The comments from Councilman Matt Zone illustrate this sentiment; and given Hebebrand's assertions, it is perhaps proof positive that the issue transcends ODOT and its usual bureaucracy, and so it's time to move up the chain of command.