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Old 10-16-17 | 03:35 PM
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From: Folsom CA

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The city of Folsom has put up a plethora of signs on the bike route from historic downtown to the rodeo; enough that one is always in eyeshot. It seems a little over the top for a half mile of MUP and sharrows. The city has a love hate relationship with Johnny Cash and the prison. He's the only reason anyone knows the town's name, and that reason links it to the prison, when they'd much rather be known for the gold rush downtown, 19th century hydroelectric power station, pony express, excellent bike trails network, and so on. A few years back one of the council members pushed to get the new post-9/11 bridge bypass for the dam named after him, she went so far as to involve his family, but the rest of the council shut her down hard. Since then everyone has cozied up and they keep naming bike stuff after him for some reason. A pedestrian overpass a few miles from this trail also bears his name.



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"Well, well!" said Holmes, impatiently. "A good cyclist does not need a high road. The moor is intersected with paths and the moon is at the full."

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