“Connection” was the buzzword Tuesday afternoon during an open house about a proposal to make downtown Olathe’s streets friendlier for pedestrians and cyclists. Both the city and the Mid-America Regional Council were seeking citizen feedback.
One key point of the plan uses the downtown area to connect the various paths, trails and bicycle lanes scattered throughout the city.
“If you look at a trail map, there are trails are all around, but they never touch downtown,” said Martin Shukert, principal of RDG Planning and Design, which is working with the city on the project. “Downtown is the knot that can connect them.”
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