July 8, 2003 Tricia Collingwood Email
On July 8, 2003 Bloomington planner Tricia Collingwood sent out an email to Bill Hayden and Jim Rosenbarger seeking ideas for bike/ped conections across SR-37. Bill forwarded the email to Ron Brown.
Coincidently Ron had just spent the past week exploring and thinking about this very question. He replied to the email suggesting a bike-ped bridge connecting Basswood Apartments to Liberty Dr. At the time there was a lot of undeveloped land between SR-37 and Liberty Dr.
Tricia gave a very favorable reply to this email thanking Ron for all of the fieldwork. This was the beginning of a continuing effort to realize the bicycle-pedestrian bridge.
July 9, Aug6 2004 Tiffany Strait Site Visits
On July 9 and August 6, 2004 Ron Brown and Billl Hayden did site visits with Bloomington Planner Tiffany Strait to the property west of SR-37. They went over plans for a bicycle-pedestrian bridge and looked at how to make connections to roads further west.
Over the years Ron Brown has done visits to the SR-37/I-69 bicycle pedestrian bridge site with many individuals.
June 2007 I-69/ SR 37 Corridor Study
Monroe County publishes the "I-69/ SR 37 Alternative Transportation Corridor Study." It mentions and shows on maps the bicycle-pedestrian bridge as a proposed overpass for the I-69 project.
Here is a link to it.
May12, 2010 Platinum Bicycle Task Force
On this date the Bloomington Common Council created the Platinum Bicycle Task Force to plan how the City can achieve a platinum designation from the League of American Bicyclists by 2016. Beginning in September 2010, it met twice a month for a year. In it's
final report the Task Force recommended a roadway separated bike-ped facility over SR-37/I-69.
July 12, 2012 Bike-Ped Bridge Meeting
Seven BBC members as well as city and county officials met with representatives from INDOT and the Michael Baker Corporation to discuss the bicycle-pedestrian bridge.
Sept 16, 2012 Support of a Bike-Ped Bridge
The BBC submitted a
resolution to INDOT in support of construction of a dedicated bicycle/pedestrian bridge to span the I-69 / SR37 highway.
March 22, 2013 About the I_69 FEIS
INDOT sent a letter to Bloomington and Monroe County regarding the upcoming Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS). It said that although not included in the FEIS, "A stand-alone facility can be discussed as a separate project once connecting public bike/pedestrian paths are identified on either side of SR 37/I-69 for a free-standing facility to serve."
April 14, 2014 Bike-Ped Bridge Meeting
The BBC held a meeting with representatives from INDOT, The City of Bloomington, Monroe County and the Indiana State Legislature. The topic was "A Bicycle-Pedestrian Bridge Across I-69." The BBC gave a slide presentation. This was followed by a discussion of issues related to the bridge. At this meeting planner Beth Rosenbarger suggested the bridge location that is in the current plan. Here is a link to the
ppt slide presentation.
MPO Support of a Bike/Ped Bridge
On the 11th of August 2017 the Bloomington/Monroe County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) adopted a resolution supporting a bicycle/pedestrian bridge over the I-69 Section 5 Corridor. This resolution states that, "a centrally located bicycle and pedestrian bridge would serve as an integral alternative transportation link for the Bloomington metropolitan area". Here is a link to the
resolution.