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PTRC StrategW for Padre and TSrar'ls Page 2 2. Perry Park tiall down to lift station road. This trail connection will link Perry Park to the Tony Schmidt Railroad underpass. The City will apply fOr a DNR Local Connection Grant for this trail segment. The grant has a 50016 match up to$100,000. The total estimated cost is$38,500. 3. West side of Old Snelling fi`om Highway 51 on the south to County Road E on the north. This portion of highway is tenifively scheduled for improvement during 2010.Building the proposed trail as part of that project has obvious advantages. This#rail segment is a key link in the major n>onth sotith arterial through the city which will eventually connect the existing Arden Hills with the new TCAAP development. This trail may be eligible four municipal state-aid finding. In the future, this trail could be extended to Lydia along the west side of Highway 51.- 4. Sour side of County road E from Old Snelling to Connelly This very important tttail links the eastern and western portions of the City,connects two existing parks,provides aecess to busidesses for people living west of Hwy. 51 and is an iropor=part of a longer east-vest arterial traversing the city from west to east. 5.- -Last side of Old Snelling from County Road E to Highway 96 This is a con#inuation of trail segment 3 and would include reworking of the railroad unddpam north of Lindey's as well-as some form of grade separation when the Highway 10 and 96 intersection is reconstructed.. This segment is crucial to improved circulation between the misting and new portions of Arden Hills. 6. North-side of Lake Johanna Boulevard from County Road E on the west to Old Snelling on --the east. DevekT meat of this traiil segment would complete the southern east west arterial through the city. It is heavily used now—year round—by residents,as well as students from Bethel and Northwestem Colleges mud Mounds View High SchooL That-uw is likely to increase with the growing popularity of Tony Schmidt Park and the Cou nty's completion of the trail link under the railroad(Segment 1). Ramsey County has rmpested that the Metropolitan Council designate Tony Schmidt as a regional park which will finther increase its visitor use. As a result,Arden Hills may be eligible for regional park fiords to improve this trail and provide safe access to the pork. 7. Traffic signals at County Road E and Old Snelling This intersection becomes a major connector in the arterial trails system and trails approach and leave the intersection from diff not sides of the street.. For am reason,and because of L the increasing volume of traffic using the mter°section,traffic signals are needed.