A controversial bike trail has residents looking for roadblocks. A 10-mile section, a limestone sidewalk, would cut through the countryside southeast of Murdock, Nebraska connecting existing trails between Omaha and Lincoln.

Since her husband died, Michelle Platt worries more about strangers passing by her acreage. So a proposed bike trail running just 100 feet from her front door has her and grandpa nervous.

"Too close and you never know who is going to come off of the trail and come up here when you have a 5-year-old and a single woman out here by ourselves, it’s just not safe."

The MoPac Trail ends at Wabash and picks up again at the scenic bridge over the Platte River. In between, it's a country road for bikers so a 10-foot wide limestone path would be a smoother and safer connection.

It's clear many of the 22 landowners don't want to be forced to sell a strip of their land for a bike trail. "It is going to be expensive and we just don't feel that this far from the city it’s going to get that much use,” says Jim Panska.

Some suggest the trail should move next to existing paved roads. The manager of the NRD says the problem with that is there won't be just experienced bikers using the trail, but also families with children. Bringing them close to a highway would be too dangerous.

The NRD manager says the proposed trail plan has the least amount of bumps. "The Natural Resource District has moved forward with this project and has every intent to be as fair in compensating people and as fair in locating it as they can,” says Lower Platte South NRD manager Glenn Johnson.

The route has only been mapped out so there's still time for alterations, though major moves in direction aren't likely. Landowners along the proposed bike trail vow to keep riding planners to find another way. "It just doesn't feel safe to me, it’s way too close," says Platt.

The $2 million trail connection could be completed by 2012, but it could face a rocky road in the Legislature. A proposed bill would declare land for a trail like this cannot be taken by imminent domain unless the Legislature approves.