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  • Impediments: boardwalk???

    From Joy Beeson@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 20 23:48:46 2016
    I searched on "Lake City Greenway" in the futile hope of finding an
    official Web site with recent information on it. One of the pages I
    found was on IndianaTrails.Com. The page had, below an out-of-date
    map, a list of the trail's properties.

    Right after "Advantages: Wetland, 2 historic bridges, canoeing,
    picnic shelter, iron bridges" we find "Impediments: some boardwalk
    over wetlands"

    In what sense is a boardwalk an impediment? The boardwalk is easily
    navigated on foot or wheelchair or bicycle or crutches or cane; even
    though skate boards are forbidden on the boardwalk, they took care to
    jam the boards close together so the cracks wouldn't catch their
    wheels. So tightly, in fact, that the plants under the boardwalk died
    and snow refuses to melt.

    It can't be because you have to walk it in the winter; after all, it's
    well known that nobody ever rides a bike between November and May.

    --
    Joy Beeson
    joy beeson at comcast dot net

    I can't restrain myself from commenting on the "advantages": the
    "iron bridges" are the "historic bridges" mentioned again. And they
    are steel.

    The boat launch and the picnic shelter are part of Kiwanis Park, which
    was near Chinworth Bridge long before the Chinworth Trail was a hazy
    daydream, but anything a trail happens to pass near may be listed as
    an advantage. If the map were up-to-date, they could add "connects
    Limitless Park to Grace College" to the advantages. I'm surprised
    that they didn't mention the City-County Athletic Complex; that was
    the main excuse for building Chinworth Trail.

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  • From EdwardDolan@21:1/5 to Joy Beeson on Sat Jul 23 20:22:32 2016
    "Joy Beeson" wrote in message news:erd0pbdsutdd1ahk7tcvg6sujj3j3lvet9@4ax.com...

    I searched on "Lake City Greenway" in the futile hope of finding an
    official Web site with recent information on it. One of the pages I
    found was on IndianaTrails.Com. The page had, below an out-of-date
    map, a list of the trail's properties.

    Right after "Advantages: Wetland, 2 historic bridges, canoeing,
    picnic shelter, iron bridges" we find "Impediments: some boardwalk
    over wetlands"

    In what sense is a boardwalk an impediment? The boardwalk is easily
    navigated on foot or wheelchair or bicycle or crutches or cane; even
    though skate boards are forbidden on the boardwalk, they took care to
    jam the boards close together so the cracks wouldn't catch their
    wheels. So tightly, in fact, that the plants under the boardwalk died
    and snow refuses to melt.

    It can't be because you have to walk it in the winter; after all, it's
    well known that nobody ever rides a bike between November and May.
    [...]

    I do not see how anyone can object to boardwalks and bike paths being used
    by both cyclists and walkers. The only downside is that if they get too crowded, a cyclist will have to slow down and give way to walkers. Mountain bikers never give way to anyone. I would prohibit mountain bikers from ever being in the same universe with civilized folks. They are savages and barbarians and deserving only of being consigned to Hell!

    Mountain bikes have wheels. Wheels are for roads.

    Trails are for walking. What’s the matter? Can’t walk?

    Ed Dolan the Great – Minnesota

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  • From cyclintom@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Joy Beeson on Sun Nov 6 12:10:08 2016
    On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 8:49:13 PM UTC-7, Joy Beeson wrote:
    I searched on "Lake City Greenway" in the futile hope of finding an
    official Web site with recent information on it. One of the pages I
    found was on IndianaTrails.Com. The page had, below an out-of-date
    map, a list of the trail's properties.

    Right after "Advantages: Wetland, 2 historic bridges, canoeing,
    picnic shelter, iron bridges" we find "Impediments: some boardwalk
    over wetlands"

    In what sense is a boardwalk an impediment? The boardwalk is easily navigated on foot or wheelchair or bicycle or crutches or cane; even
    though skate boards are forbidden on the boardwalk, they took care to
    jam the boards close together so the cracks wouldn't catch their
    wheels. So tightly, in fact, that the plants under the boardwalk died
    and snow refuses to melt.

    It can't be because you have to walk it in the winter; after all, it's
    well known that nobody ever rides a bike between November and May.

    --
    Joy Beeson
    joy beeson at comcast dot net

    I can't restrain myself from commenting on the "advantages": the
    "iron bridges" are the "historic bridges" mentioned again. And they
    are steel.

    The boat launch and the picnic shelter are part of Kiwanis Park, which
    was near Chinworth Bridge long before the Chinworth Trail was a hazy daydream, but anything a trail happens to pass near may be listed as
    an advantage. If the map were up-to-date, they could add "connects
    Limitless Park to Grace College" to the advantages. I'm surprised
    that they didn't mention the City-County Athletic Complex; that was
    the main excuse for building Chinworth Trail.

    Joy, I don't know if you've ever navigated a road bike over worn boardwalk but the "wetlands" could possibly be easier.

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  • From Joy Beeson@21:1/5 to cyclintom@gmail.com on Sun Nov 6 20:16:16 2016
    On Sun, 6 Nov 2016 12:10:08 -0800 (PST), cyclintom@gmail.com wrote:

    Joy, I don't know if you've ever navigated a road bike over worn boardwalk but the "wetlands" could possibly be easier.

    The boardwalk is maintained, but the jammed-together boards are quite
    effective at keeping wet leaves wet. So you get what looks like a
    thin layer of fluffy dry leaves, but underneath it's a slimy layer of
    rotten leaves.

    Fortunately, the Beyer Trail is quite convenient to the Beyer
    Building, which is where one goes to have one's ribs X-rayed after a
    fall.

    (But it was a couple of days before I realized that I needed to.)

    --
    Joy Beeson
    joy beeson at comcast dot net
    http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/

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