With the ramping up of construction season, three non-motorized on the southside trails are looking either to get way or speed up. The South Lansing Pathway interest me the most.
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Work has begun on the 2-mile hiking/biking Sycamore Trail of which some of the trail runs along Jolly Road and connects to the Lansing River Trail. Photo taken 3/18/2014 by Greg DeRuiter/LSJ Greg DeRuiter
2 new trails will 'transform' south Lansing, Delhi Twp.
By Greg Davis | Lansing State Journal
March 26, 2014
LANSING — Like most days, David Louth was walking his dog, Monica, as she led the way on the Lansing River Trail near Maguire Park last week.
Soon, the white Maltese will have more miles to explore.
Crews have begun work in Delhi Township on the 2.1 mile Sycamore Trail, which will stretch south from the Lansing River Trail at Maguire Park and connect with a trail that goes into Holt.
“She loves this one, so I know she’ll love the new one,” said the Lansing man, as Monica tugged ahead on her leash.
It’s one of two major trail projects this year that will add to the 13 miles of pathways on the Lansing River Trail and to a 1.5-mile paved trail that goes through Valhalla Park in Delhi Township and enters Holt.
In coming weeks, crews are expected to break ground in Lansing on the South Lansing Pathway, a $2.1 million hiking/biking trail that will add more than five miles to the Lansing River Trail network. It will run from Waverly Road east to Cavanaugh Road – mainly along a Consumers Energy right-of-way south of Jolly Road.
“It’s really going to be a transformational year for south Lansing,” Chad Gamble, the city’s director of operations, said of the trail work.
Even though parts of the Lansing River Trail are now underwater because of spring flooding, Delhi Township officials say the $3 million Sycamore Trail project is creating a buzz among residents who have noticed heavy machinery driving in pilings on the pathway -- some of which is raised -- along Jolly Road.
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The Sycamore Trail will connect with the southern trailhead of the Lansing trail at Maguire Park. It then will wind south through Delhi Township to connect with an existing trail at Willoughby Road and Pine Tree Road at Maple Ridge Cemetery. That existing trail then feeds south into Holt — three miles from Maguire Park.
The work should be completed by this fall.
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Gamble said the work for on the South Lansing Pathway will begin in full force once the weather warms up, allowing asphalt to be poured. Federal funding will cover more than 80 percent of the pathway’s cost.
He said construction should be completed by this fall.
As part of the project, a section of Pleasant Grove Road will be re-striped to create bike lanes that will connect to the pathway. Signals will be installed at certain road crossings, and a series of short extensions will connect the path to schools or parks.
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It's probably easier to say that the South Lansing Pathway will stretch from Waverly to Aurelius and then snake it way up to Cavanaugh.
EDIT: Metropolitan Census estimates are out, and Lansing surprises. After last year estimate showing an almost stalling of growth between 2010 Census to 2012 (+1,696, +0.36%), it seems the Census has revised the growth upwards to +0.7% for the 2010 Census to 2013 period adding 3,285 residents since the Census. The 2012 to 2013 period showed +1,289 (+0.27).
It seems Ingham and Clinton had nearly the same numerical population growth, while Eaton County has stalled out, which kind of shows you that Bath County/East Lansing northern tier sprawl is probably still pushing this, but Ingham County is also finally showing growth after stagnating. It's possible that Lansing
might show it's first year-over-year growth in forever when the sub-county estimates come out.