$1.5 million in federal funds is going to Lincoln Township for a long-planned trail project.
Speaking to trustees this week, Lincoln Township Supervisor Dick Stauffer said Congressman Tim Walberg has secured the money for the South Roosevelt Shared Use Path. It’s a ten-foot-wide shared use path planned along South Roosevelt from Hidden Pines to Marquette Woods Road.
Stauffer tells us the project has been on hold for several years.
“It’s one of those projects that one of the ladies there had 100 signatures to support that project,” Stauffer said. “It started back in 2017 and we engineered it. Our engineer had to put it on the shelf when the first bids came in too high for us to manage.”
Stauffer said he spoke to Walberg during a visit by the congressman last year, and Walberg asked him if the township needed support for any shovel-ready projects. Stauffer at once thought of this one.
“That was a surprise to me. And certainly a very welcome question. And I was ready for the answer. It didn’t take me long to find an answer to that question.”
Stauffer noted Tuesday Lincoln Township will be doing $3 million in sidewalk work in 2025 between this and a project on John Beers Road from Roosevelt to the Stevensville village limits.
The township will have to chip in $500,000 for the Roosevelt path, making the project total $2 million. The work will entail building a bridge and boardwalk over Hickory Creek.
Stauffer joked Tuesday night that the project seems to have nine lives after hitting multiple snags and then surviving.
