MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP - The Land Preservation Advisory Board decided November 14th to allow a one year bike trial in the Red Cedar Glen Land Preserve.

Opening up the 15-acre preserve to bikes connects existing trails, allowing bicyclists to safely bike across the Township without having to go out of their way. The Advisory Board devised a plan to keep bikes on the main trail.

"That will include signs that say 'No Bicycles', 'Single Foot Traffic Only', and then also other signs that say 'Bicycles, please stay on the main trail'," said the Parks and Land Management Coordinator, Jane Greenway. "So we're hoping that people will just you know be sensitive to the environment and appreciate those signs."

Though the signs have yet to be put up, bicyclists are already allowed to bike through the preserve.

For more than seven years, both the Park Commission and bicyclists in the community have been urging the Advisory Board to open up the area to bikes. Should this trial go well and prove such traffic doesn't damage the land, opening other preserves to bicyclists is a possibility.