Heard mention of the SGRT getting paved when I headed north in May.

I rode up from the beach to the Hartwell Trail (on Carson, LB) today and only saw a few matches amid the miles of cracked blacktop. Did they do anything further up the trail?

IIRC, above Del Amo at least to Beverly has fresh macadam. The spur from Rosemead/19 and Durfee to the main path has been repaved.

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That would be just above Rynerson Park to just below Pico Park and the Siphon Rd. connecting SGRT to Rio Hondo.

Is that it or are they working upstream or down? Sound like stimulus $$$.

(Spokane paved four mile of the Fish Lake Trail and did a new trailhead. Nice ride. Another few mil $ and Phase 3 the trail might come to Fish Lake Trailhead. Got a RR in the way.)

The SGRT has also been repaved from the end of the Santa Fe Dam to it's terminus at the mouth of Azusa Cyn.

A bunch of Rio Hondo path has been repaved as well. All of the good repaving jobs over there in LA County (LA River too) are making the SARTP "repave/repair" jobs in the past few years in OC look pretty lame.

As I recall, that was Crack City. I have a photo of one crack over by the start of the dam with my road map fitting neatly inside. Bit of room to spare.

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Can't recall the SART was ever that bad. I could tell the SGRT eyes closed - thumpa .... thumpa .... thumpa.

There was a thread on a recent repave job from (?) Katella Crossing upstream to (?) Yorba Park or thereabouts on the SART. Think I saw a bit of it coming back down the canyon from the Anaheim Hills. They have done interesting things with rock gardens in that sector - decorative beds of rip rap.

As I recall, the LARIO ("what don't get no respect") has decent pavement most of the way - and is wider than the SGRT and has numerous waysides, parapets with vines, etc.. I can't recall more than a dozen cracks in some miles. Have not been there or on the Rio Hondo since spring. Time for another ride.

Upper Rio Hondo junction (where coming down from the Arcadia Par 3 course across to where it starts at Peck Rd. Conservation Park) was recently flooded but the water has subsided as of this past weekend to be passable. It's a smooth ride all the way down to Whittier Narrows on new blacktop -

Went on the Arcadia part a little while a go and it was very nice and smooth. The dam kind of flooded over the bike path, but me and my friend just road our bikes through the water.

That's the Rio Hondo trail that you're talking about. I rode that route last weekend, and the path is no longer flooded at the dam - if anyone's interested.