I for one would like to see a nice straight shot of bike path from
University Bay on through to where the bike route picks up again at
Shorewood Blvd. and Locust Dr.
As it is now, the path ends and cyclist end up riding through a
hazardous parking lots over a bit of lawn and into another chaotic
parking lot. Then after crossing Marshall Ct. we end up taking the
path which heads in a round-about manner into a park and dumps into
the parking lot for the Shorewood Hills pool. Then the route takes
you the wrong way on a one way street (with a very narrow lane set
aside for cyclists) until you reach Shorewood Blvd.
A straight shot along the rail line from University Bay to Shorewood
Blvd would be much safer and much more efficient.
Just my thoughts,
Frank Hassler
Good Oak Ecological Services
(608) 209-0607
www.goodoakllc.com
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On Nov 14, 2008, at 10:35 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all:
Since there has been some discussion about the Campus Drive path
recently, I
wanted to share with you some of the thoughts of the Village of
Shorewood
Hills. Mark Sundquist, the Village President, had shared some of his
thoughts
with me informally, so I asked him to put "pen to paper" and allow
me to share
those with the bikies community.
As you all know, the Campus Drive path currently ends at University
Bay Drive.
The key is to connect it to the Blackhawk Path, which will
eventually connect
to the west with on-street bike lanes on Old Middleton Drive, and a
possible
off street trail on the rail corridor parallel to Old Middleton Drive.
Shorewood Hills is in my county board district, so I take an active
interest in
the plans of the Village.
Thanks to Mark for providing this information and for making sure
that bicycle
transportation is part of the Village Neighborhood Plan.
Al Matano
Dane County Board, District 11.
Al,
The Village of Shorewood Hills is close to completing a Neighborhood
Plan for
the Marshall Court area. A key feature of the plan is a bike path
following the
railroad tracks from U-Bay to the west side of the village swimming
pool, where
the path would join Purdue St and easily connect to Shorewood Blvd.
To make the
path more practical and safe, the plan includes the possibility of a
bridge
over U-Bay to join to the new University path.
Because the Neighborhood Plan is a basically a concept plan laying
out ground
rules for future development, it is not as specific as zoning code or
development plans, so it does not specify the design of the path, or
whether it
might be integrated into future structures, but it does specify that
the path
will more or less run along the area adjoining the tracks, i.e., it
will not,
for instance, be diverted up to Marshall Court.
The plan will be put on the Shorewood Hills website once it is
approved.
The corresponding TIF Plan for the Marshall Court area has been
approved and it
can be viewed at http://www.shorewood-hills.org/tid_3/info.htm.
Mark Sundquist
Village President
Shorewood Hills
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