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

[Serge Issakov]

Ah, but there is a legal mandate to design and maintain streets to certain
standards.

Not so for paved bike paths, as confirmed by the recent CA Supreme Court
decision to not review the Prokop appeal.

You can't blame them for giving higher priority to projects that they are
legally mandated to design and maintain to certain standards, can you?

Serge



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