Last month, work was completed on the restoration of Klingle Creek, allowing the project to turn it's attention to the trail work.
Planting trees along the restored stream banks in Segment
If you're into stream restoration porn, there are plenty more before and after shots at the project website, which while not quite hitting the weekly update goal, still does a great job of keeping people informed. If I gave out awards, the site would get one.
With that boring environmental stuff out of the way, the trail construction can begin.
A lot of the work going on now is below the trail, like replacing gas lines, replacing a broken brick culvert with a new concrete one and adding water quality structures, but they have completed construction of the sidewalk along the Klingle Road to Porter Street Connector.
Sweet!
Posted by: Crickey7 | May 11, 2016 at 08:54 AM
I do kind of wish that there'd be both concrete sidewalks and chipseal-surfaced trails in these instances where expansion and contraction occurs due to weather factors, just so that wheel users can have the option of a continuous surface vs. the bumps of a sidewalk.
Nonetheless, I'll take it!! This is wonderful!
Posted by: Evan G | May 11, 2016 at 10:30 AM
This is one project that I thought I would never see done in my lifetime and yet here it is after being closed since 1991 (25 years ago). Bravo.
Maybe some of the good luck of this project will spill over to completing the MBT before I die (I’m 66, so 66 + 25 = 91 … could happen).
Posted by: Dan | May 11, 2016 at 03:01 PM
Restore Klingle Road!!!
(Sorry, was feeling nostalgic...)
Posted by: oboe | May 12, 2016 at 09:10 AM
This is very nice. I have to ask: do we need it to be THIS nice every time? I ask because if cost is a major factor, can we get more repairs done by doing them a little more roughly? I really don't know
Posted by: SJE | May 12, 2016 at 09:55 AM