The Eureka Waterfront Trail
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The Eureka Waterfront Trail
From the air! It's not 100% complete, as you'll see, but the city won a grant of $2 mil. to fill the hole between the Adorni Center and G St. It's all part of the Humboldt Bay Trail, only four years and four miles from completion. I hope I'm still riding by then.
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I'm curious as to how they funded a bike path that doesn't meet California's design standards. Seems weird to build like it's 1970 and just ignore what we've learned as well as state law.
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Which standards doesn't it meet? Is it the gap? Because they've gotten a grant to fix it.
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From the Youtube comments, it seems to be a pre-existing unpaved trail, that they paved. So thumbs up.
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Seems weirder to complain about what looks like a perfectly serviceable MUP built in a rural CA city. If we insist every bike path be built strictly to code, it'll make it harder to build bike paths. I don't see any branch of it terminating in a brick wall or going off the side of a cliff, so I'll consider that a step up from a lot of MUP design around the country.
From the Youtube comments, it seems to be a pre-existing unpaved trail, that they paved. So thumbs up.
From the Youtube comments, it seems to be a pre-existing unpaved trail, that they paved. So thumbs up.
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