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muriel_volestrangler

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20. See #19

Fri Jan 28, 2022, 10:15 AM

Jan 2022

Enough to be a bus route, obviously. It may be the bridge over the now-inaptly-named 'Tranguil Trail':

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4395698,-79.900185,284m/data=!3m1!1e3 (sorry, you have to copy and paste all of that - DU software doesn't cope with the '@' well)

A local in #19 says it could cause a lot of problems.

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