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You Can’t Get There From Here

I made an interesting discovery on my bike today. I found a way under

Carlisle at I-40. There’s a paved path with railing along the arroyo on the north side of I-40. Paved, that is, directly under Carlisle,

but gravel before and after. I rode west of Carlisle on the wide gravel path between the Interstate and the arroyo, hoping for a

connection to the bike path that travels under I-40 between Indian School and Menaul (near the tumbleweed snowman barely east of the

Big-I).

Oh, but there

isn’t a connection. Instead, the trail ends at a gate before the confluence of arroyos. The other trail is in sight, but to get to it

would require a steep ride down and out of the arroyo (which had water today, to my surprise).

Obviously, what’s needed here is a

bridge, maybe one of those arching bridges like those that span Tramway, carrying bicyclists and walkers above the level of the

Interstate so we can look down on folks stuck in traffic and they can look at us and think, “maybe I should get out of my car, too.”

A simple bridge there would

probably cost less than re-striping Montaño Bridge or extending Paseo del Norte. It might even cost less then the yet-another damn

billboard going up nearby. (When will we finally outlaw that crap? Never.) mjh

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