LETTERS: Barr Trail needs maintenance; greedy partisan politicians
In June 2019, Britt Haley of our city Parks Department told me via email: “Rocky Mountain Field Institute estimates annual maintenance to the section of Barr Trail impacted by Incline return traffic to be approximately $40,000.” The city of Manitou Springs has been doing the $40,000 in repairs per year on the Barr Trail since 2013, but the condition of the trail is worsening. The visible erosion damage on the hillside is worsening also. Why have the drainage problems not been fixed yet? They are causing new damage to the trail every year. Sources have told me for a long time that a profes...