After a lengthy discussion, The Dalles City Council gave the Riverfront Trail Committee the go-ahead to explore if it is feasible to finish the eastern end of the trail on the south side of Interstate 84.  The north side of the freeway has been ruled out due to tribal archaeological and cultural concerns.  The decision came after a lengthy Council discussion.  Councilor Russ Brown said he wasn’t very happy about going to the other side of the Interstate, but noted with one-point-seven million dollars of state grant money and donated matching funds in hand the Council really couldn’t justify telling the committee to stop its work.  A tentative plan would take the path from the Port of The Dalles Marina over the freeway to the access road, follow the old levy road up to Three Mile Creek, build a bridge to go over the creek, then go under Highway 197 and follow I-84 to the railroad bridge underneath the freeway, and to the south side of Bret Clodfelter Way to connect to the trail to The Dalles Dam.