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Floods, closures and the money: the keeping of the system, and this ground's one line in it

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A riverwalk's maintenance record is a flood record, and the system's money is a patchwork of dated grants and splits. The money first, as dated in the items above: $1.79 million for Riverside's first phase (2007); $4 million for Mishawaka's east extension (2022–23); $7 million for the Coal Line's second phase, at 80 percent federal (2024); $11.5 million for the Link Trail, shared by the city, the university and the visitor bureau's hotel-motel tax board (2024); and the RAISE planning money, in its two conflicting figures, for the gap (2024). The keeping has acquired an instrument of its own: in 2023–24 MACOG rode the whole Crossway network with a camera- and sensor-equipped "data bike," publishing a trail condition report in February 2025 that maps surface roughness and repair needs over more than 120 miles — the region's first system-wide maintenance ledger. No trail-specific closure, repair or funding record exists for any Osceola segment, because there is no Osceola segment; the leg prints that emptiness rather than borrowing the system's ledger as the town's.

Sources: City of South Bend releases (Riverside phase 1 cost, 2009; Coal Line funding split, 2023); Larson-Danielson Construction (Mishawaka extension, $4 million); ITGA / City of South Bend Link Trail briefing (2025; $11.5 million; November 2024 completion); Bike Michiana Coalition, MACOG Trail Condition Report summary, 26 February 2025 (data-bike survey, 120+ miles); Parks of this build (Ferrettie trails open except in high water). Rights basis: published figures; no image pulled.

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Source: Floods, closures and the money: the keeping of the system, and this ground's one line in it, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/osceola/bike-trails/floods-closures-and-the-money-the-keeping-of-the/