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

[Serge Issakov]

Money.

On 8/22/07, Gene Carman <gcarman at san.rr.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
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