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Connecting Neighborhoods One Pedal Stroke at a Time

ll admit it: I’m biased. From the very first I heard that there was even a remote possibility that one day I would be able to ride my bike along a tree-shaded car-less path from the Treme to Mid-City, I was pumped. For this very reason, I was not at all surprised when more than 100 similarly overjoyed folks came out last Saturday to walk the length of the city’s first planned greenway.

The paved bike path will run along the Lafitte Corridor from Louis Armstrong Park to Carrollton Avenue, connecting the Treme, the Seventh Ward and Mid-City and creating a straightforward car-less route across downtown New Orleans.

Final Stop

Last Saturday, nearly 150 showed up to go on the annual walk of the now-overgrown rail pass. The excitement in the air was caught by WWL’s intrepid camera. Luckily for all us, our own Mary Rowe was there to explain that the greenway is about more than just a straight, flat route to the Parkview Bakery
As bike-maven Rowe put it to WWL., the greenway is about “connecting neighborhoods, it’s connecting different aspects of the city — the industrial aspect, the residential aspect, the recreational aspect.”

My vote for the next biker-minded public works project is planting shady oak trees along the sidewalks on Broad Street. I can deal with biking in smog, but pedaling through unremediated smog and sun in the dead heat of a New Orleans summer feels to me like a pretty clear-cut bad idea. And if you think about it, planting trees is a lot more affordable than nursing a whole population of heat stroke victims back to health.

Filed Under: bikes, mary rowe interconnectivity, lafitte greenway 

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