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Originally Posted by JoMar

As always, great perspective. I wonder if any of the villages closer to 44 will have an alternative route to Brownwood or will it still require a ride to Hillsborough Trail or will it be shorter to go south to Everglades and over?

They will have to go up Morse to Hillsborough Trail for now. It may be quicker later when Meggison Rd is opened to take the MMP that will parallel it.

Interestingly, there is an alternative path that has never been discussed. The developer in 2008 purchased the existing railway right-of-way property that runs from the Rohan Rec Center - west on SR44 to CR143 - west along CR143 to CR44A - west along CR44A to the New Covenant UMC. There is an existing golf cart path that connect New Covenant UMC to the Village of Lake Deaton. The right-of-way continues west of CR44A all the way to Antrium Dells. This is a strip of land about 50 ft wide and in theory they could build a MMP from Rohan RC to Brownwood which would be substantially shorter than any other route. Will it happen, I think it highly unlikely. It would take the CDDs (10?) to purchase the land and then the CDDs (all south of 466) to pay for the 3 miles of MMP from Morse to Buena Vista. Never going to happen.

In the attached picture you can see the narrow strip of land outlined in yellow that goes from Morse Blvd to New Covenant UMC.