A new proposal would expand Ashworth Road in West Des Moines in order to widen lanes and add bike path.The path would run along a stretch of Ashworth from 1st Street to 50th Street, but it will cost part of many West Des Moines residents' front yards."We're just trying to make it a safer road for everybody," city engineer for West Des Moines Brian Hemesath said.Hemesath says the new bike path to be installed alongside the Ashworth Road Construction Project will need 20 feet from the curb, taking about six additional feet from most homeowners on the north side."We use that fair market value and then we determine the amount of money we give them for that land," Hemesath said.For West Des Moines resident Ryan Luscombe and his family, it would mean tearing down this iron rod fence in front of their home."I just think it kind of ruins the aesthetic if we lose that to the house, because if you have to bring that 20 feet in, you have to dig up and re-center everything and it's just not a good look," Luscombe said.Hemesath says the city would be willing to work with families with special landscaping.The project will also merge four lanes into three.People who live on and around Ashworth say the 9-foot lanes are too narrow. After construction, the road will have one lane each way and a shared left turn lane."This particular stretch is just too narrow for four lanes of traffic," West Des Moines resident Dennis Atherton said.Hemesath says it's a 10 to 20-year project and it will hopefully finish around 2040.