07-20-2016, 04:12 PM
(07-20-2016, 03:56 PM)Canard Wrote: Laurel Trail from Columbia to the R&T Park ion station got brand new asphalt today! It's beautiful!
Oooh shiny.
The section of the Laurel trail from Bearinger up to Northfield (on the west side, not near the Ion line) was also repaved, which surprised me. Does anyone know:
a) What criteria is used to select which trails to repave. The pavement on that section was in decent shape (although it was in need of a patch or two, which Waterloo seems like they don't do on trails), as compared with the mostly unpaved section to the south, and the very degraded pavement to the north.
b) If this counts against the 10,000 meters over the next five years of trails the city talked about approving in the latest budget. If so, its quite disappointing to see that 10,000 meters spent on a trail that was already reasonably well paved, and exists. I took the 10,000 meters to be new trails.
Additionally, it seems as though many trail boulevard aprons are being rebuilt. Does anyone know if there were designs on this, if the designs will better accommodate cyclists with either crossrides or elimination of curbs? Or is this just for ADA pads.