New Section of Staten Island Bike Path to Open in August
Come August, Staten Island is set to become an even more bike-friendly borough. The Parks Department is in the process of completing a two-mile bike path that will connect the neighborhoods of Great Kills and New Dorp, both of which lie on the other side of Latourette Park from Freshkills Park. The path will run parallel to the southeastern coast of the Island and will provide bikers, runners and walkers a more protected and bucolic alternative to traveling along the roadways. This bike route will be a welcome complement to Freshkills Park’s own 3.3 mile New Springville Greenway, set to be completed by 2013. Eventually, the route will also include spaces for “outdoor gyms” as part of city-wide fitness initiative, BeFitNYC. The creation of this path also represents an important new partnership between several city and state agencies in order to more efficiently improve the quality of New York City’s parklands for visitors and local residents alike.
(via SI Live)
will this be a real bike trail? -i.e. no toddlers on roller skates or 90-y.o’s. walking Lhasa Apsos? Vulnerable populations (tykes, small dogs, and the elderly) using bike paths can easily become roadkill. This COULD BE portrayed as an ADA access issue (Ttitle II): I have so-called special-needs adults in my family who have no problem in a moving traffic stream but will not react quickly to, for example, a toddler darting in front of them. BTW, this is not only an ADA access issue – I’ve seen the spandex-clad speedsters come very close to clipping this potential-road-kill population…Why not put a pedestrian walk next to bike trails? and start a public awareness campaign to keep pedestrians off the bike paths?