Originally Posted by
FenderTL5
So we have a series of greenways that are not connected. You can ride a beautiful greenway 6-10 miles and back for recreation but not on any meaningful commute route.
We've just got the one at the moment, and it's a prime example of useless design; 1.8 miles long, and the ends are less than a mile apart. Just curves along the river through undeveloped land, parallels a street for a whole block in the middle, and then follows the river again until it ends on a dead end street just the other side of downtown. No real access to anything other than the park itself, and even that is pathetic since they stopped that end of the trail under a bridge at a small runoff ditch just outside the park. You have to dismount and lug the bike through a ~5ft wide, 3ft deep trough, then 50 yards across the grass to get to another improved surface. (Or you can cut off to a small side street and cross the state highway the bridge is for.)