I'm never in favor of paving a dirt trail with asphalt but certainly could live with it.I'm a regular user of that stretch of VCP as I go there sometimes 3 times a week with my dogs as I live in Inwood.Even at it's worst it is easily navigated with my mountain bike and passable with my road bike when going for a serious road bike ride.Strange things are happening in Van Cortlandt Park!If you go up to the Old Croton Trail further East they're doing extensive landscaping and anti erosion work around where the old control station is in the park.This is an area where very few people visit So I'm wondering why so much money is being invested in the first place.Seems they have money they don't know what to do with.