-: I particularly like doing a project
that people have told me can't be done.
So when I started, I was told by a planner
that we would never get Roanoke River Greenway built.
And don't even think about it, and go do something else.
That project was never gonna happen.
So if you know Roanoke, you know that Roanoke River Greenway
is the most popular greenway we have.
And within five years, it'll be about 30 miles long.
So, it's kind of fun to do something
that people told you you couldn't do.
(laughs loudly)
Another example of that is that when we did
the Carvins Cove Trail plan, people said no.
You will never get that right away,
you will never be able to come in that way.
Don't put it in the plan.
And yesterday we signed a contract to get that right away.
So it's fun to do the things that
you're not supposed to be able to do.
Well the biggest challenge is that
each government works in a different way.
So I've worked with two cities, two counties in a town.
And in Virginia, cities and counties
have different authority.
They can't do the same things.
That's one of the big challenges.
There are things that sometimes you just give up on
and I would this an example,
for years we tried to get the localities
to come up with a sign plan for signage on the Greenway
that would be consistent for all the greenways
across all the jurisdictions.
And they each had there own signs planned.
These are our colors, these are our,
this is the way our signs have to look.
And finally after really, several years
of working on that, we just said okay,
you've got to have a sign here, guys, go make it.
And let it match your system,
but there's some things that we kind of eventually
just said it's not worth fighting the system, been so long.
So, there are things like that.