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two of the survey. Some explanation of those results is a little preliminary, but changes the perspective about the comparisons. The respondents reporting problems that had gotten either Significantly or Slightly Worse mentioned Pet Problems fifty-one out of one-hundred and one times. While there is very little difference between those cases where a certain characteristic is present and where it is not, there doesn't appear to any significant change in the patterns between different characteristics. This is all in relationship to the responses indicating trail areas were either the Same or Better than non-trail areas in each category. The raw data does indicate there is a slight decrease in problem reporting when there are Lights, Patrols, Striping, Arterial Rooting and a slight increase when there is Intersystem Connections. The City of Prior Lake is planning to implement a trail system that interconnects with other systems. In this case, we have the Scott County Trail running through the center of town and it connects to the state trail that will be on the South side of the Minnesota River. The survey did not find that there were significantly more problems when systems interconnect. That was a major concern mentioned at the public meetings, because there was fear that numerous strangers would be coming to town on the trail system. Another concern has to do with whether or not the trails are on the residential side streets or the main arterial streets. The communities surveyed are about half and. half on this question. There are forty~ix that run them along arterial streets and forty-two that do not. There did not appear to be any significant difference in problems either way. The last three questions dealt with safety measures and asked whether communities patrolled trails, used striping to keep traffic going in one direction on each side of the trail, and whether or nor they had lighted trails. About one third do use patrolling of various types, approximately one fifth use striping, and one thud have lighting. Prior Lake had considered lighting but decided to delay it because of the cost and based on the survey there is no indication that it eliminates problems; however, there are other legitimate reasons for doing any of these things, such as providing more usability. The other questions on the first page of the survey are descriptive information that help us better understand what the state of trail development is in this area. Funding sources s