MnDOT puts name of new bike route up to public vote

Minnesotans have had the probability to weigh in on names for condition snowplows — twice.

Now the Minnesota Division of Transportation is giving the public the chance to decide from among five finalists for the title of a freshly designated bicycle route throughout the state.

What is at present identified U.S. Bicycle Route 20 stretches for 188 miles alongside current trails and roads among St. Cloud and Moorhead, passing via Melrose, Alexandria, Fergus Falls and Pelican Rapids, between other communities. It consists of parts of the Lake Wobegon Regional Trail and Central Lakes Point out Trail.

Much more than two-thirds of the route keeps riders on trails, and off of highways.

To give the route a title — instead of just a quantity — point out transportation officials have picked five potential names for the route, and set them up for a general public vote:

• Glacial Lakes Bicycle Route

• MiddleSota Bicycle Route

• Prairie Lakes Bicycle Route

• Rivers to Prairies Bicycle Route

• Cities and Fields Bicycle Route

They say these tips arrived from people today attending an event very last 12 months.

The on-line voting operates by way of July 12.

“MnDOT is enthusiastic to give people a further way to see our lovely point out,” MnDOT Commissioner Nancy Daubenberger said in a news release. “We hope that Route 20 provides a new selection for existing cyclists and evokes other individuals to see some of the good rides that Minnesota has to present.”

Minnesota has two other selected U.S. bicycle routes — Route 41, the North Star Route, stretching 315 miles concerning St. Paul and Grand Portage and Route 45, the Mississippi River Trail, following the river for several hundred miles from Itasca Point out Park to the Iowa border.