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

[Gene Carman]

Seems to be plenty out there for adding lots of asphalt for autos...

At 08:47 AM 8/22/2007, Serge Issakov wrote:
>Money.
>
>On 8/22/07, Gene Carman <<mailto:gcarman at san.rr.com>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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