re: Just Announced: Feds to pay for Baton Rouge to build 10 mile northern loop

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Does Denver have the heat and (liquid) precipitation issues that BR does?

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No but they have below freezing temperatures and snow, and people still ride in those conditions. It can also get pretty warm there.

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It is so hot and rains so damn much here that going on a bike path isn't particularly feasible if you want to get there in a condition to work.

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It's not like there is a gridlock of bike commuters in Denver from what I saw, at least where I was located near the foothills. There were some. Many would shower at work, because as I noted it can still get pretty warm there in the summer.

I'm not comparing cities. Yes, Denver weather is overall more pleasant than in BR.

What I said was that hopefully this spurns a shift to being more active. Just to get people out of the house and outside. Look at the Tammany Trace... that thing sees a ton of traffic especially on the weekends.

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will they become offended with hurt feelings then and want the path removed?

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Depends on if they name it after a white guy.

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Louisville(or Ohio/Kentucky) did something similar with an old railroad track over the ohio river. Pretty cool

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Very cool.

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It seems they want to impress people with how many miles of bike paths they have than anything else.

Why build a long bike path with no bridge?

Why build a bike path from the casino to no where?

Why not start from a destination point and work out and complete each section as you go?

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It was my understanding they are doing this as sections become viable. For example, the Kenilworth-Quail path was completed because of the donation from Pennington for the land. It moved ahead or up the list because it was shovel ready.

I want to say the mall path and subsequent connection that went by St George was completed in 2013-2014. I remember riding it when I saw it was done and wondering where the bridge was. I think they had some design and funding issues, as the majority of the path was funded with a partnership between BCBS and BREC. I would imagine the development of the new retail/residential area behind the theater also could have caused some issues.

I could be completely wrong on all of this, these are things I've heard over the past few years.

I think overall, while the building of these paths seems haphazard, there is a legitimate plan that was part of Imagine Your Parks II and should be on track to be completed in the timeframe outlined in the plan.

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All Brec is doing is building a bike path to no where. Not many people will use it.

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People certainly wont use it if it isn't built. As another poster said, you can see daily use on the Kenilworth-Quail path, where no straight connection existed before.

I've said in the past, at least with these projects BREC is completing, we can see something tangible from the property tax dollars we spend each year. Much better than watching Tarsha and her cohorts at the EBR COA park their new leased Mercedes and Escalades out front of their office.