Board OKs contract to build 8-foot-wide trail from Lower Cascades to Griffy
October 5, 2011
Construction of an 8-feet-wide multiuse trail from Lower Cascades Park to near Griffy Lake was authorized Tuesday by the Bloomington parks board, which also approved hiring a consulting team to guide development of the old CSX Switchyard property.
The board approved a contract with Dave O’Mara Contractor Inc. for $632,400 to build the nearly mile-long trail segment starting at Cascades Park. O’Mara was the lowest of five bidders for the work, according to Dave Williams, operations and development director for the Bloomington Department of Parks and Recreation.
The trail will begin at Clubhouse Drive in Lower Cascades Park and run along the west side of Cascades Park Road until crossing Walnut Street. The trail will end at a bridge over Griffy Creek across from Stone Mill Road.
A trail grant from the Indiana Department of Natural
8 comments:
$630k for a mile long trail crossing 37? Man, give my 100k and a chain saw and I'll do it. Am I missing something or does this town seem to get bamboozled in every trail deal it touches?
It's government status quo at all levels (local,state & federal) to overspend. At least it's being paid for through a "grant". I would assume it's a paved trail for that amount of money? IMO...not really needed here, but whatever.
...just saying...Muncie, a town that totally sucks, has a ~100mile paved rail trail. And while I don't know its cost, I'd bet it's somewhere near the cost of the downtown corridor of the b-Line. Of course it doesn't have artsy tiles telling you what street you're about to get plowed on as you cross it, and it doesn't have a Hors Categorie bridge. Oh wait, that's because it's for riding on, not looking at. It's true, Muncie's trail doesn't look as fancy as B-Town's, but unlike B-Town's you can ride it for hours not minutes.
There was an editorial in todays 10/06 paper complaining about WW on old 37 FYI
They just started a 3 mile bike path here in St. Aug for $1.3M.
Wes (or anyone else), can you forward the editorial if you subscribe to the online version of the HT. Might be good to put it on here for all to see.
cheers,
gp
p I assume the complaint was bc of the number of riders not because people started attacking before Anderson road....
I agree Adam. When they built the Monon in Indy they focused on laying down the surface then they let the community decorate it later. It's sad that Bloomington only has a few miles of "real" bike paths.
geraint that was hilarious btw---yes, i think it was ?_______? that wrote the letter to the editor because someone rode hard up the hill leading to the pig farm.
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