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Old 10-22-13, 10:09 PM
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marquhar
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Ah Coyote Creek Bike path: so many possibilities gone so wrong.

Grants from RMC were handed out in 2006-2007 time frame, after a State Bond was passed in 2004. About 7 cities got grants (for different reasons) to develop projects along the locally adjacent river channels.

I attended a meeting in September 2009 in Seal Beach chambers to discuss how they would spend their grant ($2.2M). Many recreational bike clubs sent reps, including Lightning Velo & SCOR Cardiac (about 10 members). It was a lively meeting and the planners used live polling tools with the audience. SB money was spent on the lower SGRT.

Cerritos ($200k) and Santa Fe Springs quietly spent their grants on Iron Work (gates) and paving the CC bike path in their boundaries. The work they had done is top notch.
All cities, except Los Alamitos ($1.4M), finished their projects by April 2012. This city is the lone RMC grant holdout, and the question is why?

So far, it appears all of the Los Alamitos money will be spent on this sequestered park with the serpentine path. There is no parking lot (done by SB), and no plans to improve the existing CC bike path. Not sure if a restroom is planned.

Long Beach and Seal Beach together managed to get the bike path paved (April 2012) from the beach all the way up to Willow/Katella. The path is freshly paved once again after Centralia Ave(Lakewood/Cerritos). So the CC bike path is a still a mess of fractured asphalt from Willow up to Centralia, near Forest Lawn in Cypress. Why can't Cypress and Los Alamitos get together and maintain the standard set by Seal Beach and Cerritos and pave their section of the path?

I've heard rumours that the Mayor of Cypress (P. Nahrain) has been seen on a brand new road bike on the CC path, so he knows what the condition of the path is.

Perhaps no one in Los Alamitos government believes that anyone would ever ride the length of the bike path from SFS to the beach, so why bother improving the bike path that currently exists. I have the horrible feeling that once they finish the park they will channel riders into it and close the existing trail. If this happens, you know they will do the provocateur, passive/aggressive routine and set a 10 MPH speed limit to put the kabash on Roadies trying to make good time. The folks that run Los Alamitos are straight out of the 1950's and are still upset that a bike path was put there back in the Carter Era (1978).

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