No Trail Connection from Lake Street to The Portage
Bicyclists and pedestrians will have to use new bridge to access trail near intersection of Lake and North Water streets
Cyclists looking to access the section of The Portage Hike and Bike Trail that spans from Lake Street to Lake Rockwell Road will not be able to jump on the trail in Kent from the east side of the Cuyahoga River. The new pedestrian bridge under construction as part of the Fairchild Avenue Bridge project will link directly to the existing trail, which dead-ends next to Weiss Motors and Knapp's Collision and the Akron Barberton Cluster Railway tracks. Kent City Engineer Jim Bowling said the railroad would not permit a new crossing of the train tracks to allow direct access to the bike trail for pedestrians and cyclists. "They don’t care if it’s a sidewalk, bike path or a street," Bowling said. "We had one crossing before (construction). They …
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Kentguy
1:53 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
I think extending the trail to the bridge on the east side is a simple solution. You can cross the tracks and take a quick right to hop right on the path and/or use the pedestrian bridge. more ›