Friday, May 11, 2012

Kudos to Riverside Parks and Recreation and Mike Hall

Thirty-seven miles on the SART after work. What a fantastic way to wind down after a bad day!

Let's start by giving a vote of thanks to Riverside County Parks and Recreation. They've been doing a lot of work on the Santa Ana River Trail lately to extend roads and install some pipeline. Every time they've had to dig up a section of the bike trail, they've laid a detour section down first so there was no disruption to the riders. In addition, even though they had to close a section completely while they were working on it, they took the trouble to open it back up on the weekends. It's much easier for cyclists to forgive disruption when it's handled this well. It looks like Parks and Recreation is done now because the bike trail was open all the way through yesterday evening (a weekday) for the first time in over a year.

Compare this with San Bernardino County who closed the trail for six months just because a section of the pavement had some cracks. Don't they know they are immune from lawsuits from trail users?

Congratulations also to Mike Hall who is more than halfway through his attempt to break the world record for cycling around the world. This morning he hit the 20,000km mark somewhere in the middle of Texas. She's a big state, ain't she?

Be safe, Mike, and tailwinds the rest of the way :-)

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