City plans bike trail hub for West Side | Columbus Dispatch

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STEVE WARTENBERG | DISPATCH

Chris Haydocy says plans for a Wilson Road hub on the Cleveland-Cincinnati bike trail will help revitalize the West Side.

Chris Haydocy looks at the West Side and sees a future in which young people are buying houses and businesses and returning to long-shuttered vacant properties.

The catalyst for that resurgence, the auto dealer says, is what he hopes will be the “crown jewel” of a 330-mile bike trail between Cincinnati and Cleveland.

Planners the city hired are designing a hub that could be the center of activity on the Camp Chase Trail, a path that will connect the West Side to Downtown and link the Ohio-to-Erie trail through Columbus.

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