[SDCBC] What is it going to take to finish the 56 path?

[Gene Carman]

It is amazing that such a nice path still remains in such an 
unfinished state.  Such conditions would never occur on a street that 
motorists use.

The transitions to El Camino Real have never been finished, both 
marginal transitions, one just dirt, with no curb cuts, the other 
steep and rutted asphalt just waiting to catch a cyclist off 
guard..  The western end of the path meanders on past El Camino Real 
and then just dies with the empty promise of more to come.

The "walk" signals (do we even need to go into the implications of 
"walk" signals) for west bound bike traffic are on the wrong side of 
the path, requiring cyclists to dismount (or at a minimum "unclip" to 
use the signal, and putting themselves into the path of east bound 
cycle traffic.

And then there is the mosquito pit... the green slime filled "pond" 
that is barely held back by the weir under the Carmel Country Road 
bridge...  just a slight rain and that slime will surely flood across 
the path again.

On top of all that, the pavement is buckling behind the housing just 
to the east of Carmel Country Road.

I mean this is a great path, but it is hardly finished...  just what 
is it going to take?