Rode my bike on Forest Rd today. The section between Harrison and College roads looks to be finished. It's striped, but it's still barricaded on both ends. They are still working on the section between Stoneleigh and Collins. The first layer of asphalt was down, and they were pouring the concrete around the new manholes. Looks like after that it's asphalt and striping and then hopefully finished.
Has anyone looked at the plans for the River Trail extension on Moores River Drive? I took a look over there yesterday and all the construction is for one of the gates of the dam that is being repaired, seems like they just finished this project, and it already needs repair. There is no shoulder on the north side of Moores River Drive all the way from the park to MLK. I am wondering where they are going to put the trail, maybe at the bank level, or reconfiguring the street, it is quite wide there? I hope they are not planning to take out a lot of trees, in the season they really block the view of the old cooling towers across the river. This year the canopy of leaves is really dense and pretty. When I was a kid we used to follow the "Indian Trails" along the river bank there to get over to the pool.
I read this on the River Trail website. It talked about road closing etc. There is room for a shared roadway east of MLK and some parkland and wide sidewalks from there to the west.
This is good to see, I have avoided that road for years. Is the speed limit going to be 45mph? Drivers would haul ass down this stretch when it was crappy I think the lead-foots will love this! I would like to see this type of RR crossing on S Washington. The CN crossing there has become really "ridged"? causing cars to scrape their bottom or divers pull into the slightly better bike lane to avoid the bumps.
I was able to take my favorite back route to the P.O. via Hazel Street which has reopened and Aurelius. The Big MJ grow house on Hazel looks more fortress-like every day, a new owner has taken over the little cafe on the corner of Penn and Hazel, newly painted it looks better. Nothing but the grass being mowed has changed at the Holmes Street School, that was disappointing. On the newly opened Forest Road, I was surprised to see they only repaved about half of the road from Stoneleigh Drive east. The new hospital looks very large [for Lansing] and impressive. A smaller structure is being built in front of the main building, I noticed the steel framing going up. You can see the new building on the WLNS webcam when they show the southern view standing up above the treeline.
In train spotting news, I saw the Amtrak Blue Water passing by this morning and noticed the brand new passenger coaches built by Seimens have been put into service! I will have to take a better look but I think they may have even replaced the ancient cafe car. The new coaches look really great, they seem to be taller or more 'boxed out?" which I would guess indicates a larger space inside. One day when I find a trustworthy cat sitter I am going to take that train!
Maybe people already know this, S.Washington Ave will be closed at the CN tracks starting Monday. I am hoping that is for building a new crossing there, the road has really gotten bad. Also, I finally figured out that the part of the River Trail that is being worked right now is on western Moores River Driver, they are repairing the collapsing bank there and have the street closed at Westgate. I was thinking they were starting at the other end of the street.
S. Washington Ave is open again after the RR crossing repairs. I had hoped they would install a crossing like the new one on Waverly, but they just blacktopped it. It is much improved but will need doing again soon with the blacktop lasting a shorter time. It was so quiet with the street closed. That was nice.
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