Larimer-Homewood Multimodal Greenway Extension
I biked to bakery square for beer and food recently and decided to check out the diagonal railroad tracks between there and the busway entrance on fifth ave. That's where a new road and bike path are planned. Great news, construction is already underway! The tracks are being removed and there is construction fencing with project renders.
The goal is to reduce traffic at the intersectino of penn and fifth. People coming up washington blvd will now have a way to get to the bakery square parking garage without needing drive on penn ave. That part doesn't interest me as much as the rest.
A pedestrian/bike bridge is being built over the busway to connect bakery square to larimer! There will also be a protected bike lane connecting the intersection of mcpherson blvd and fifth ave with bakery square. This completes a few missing connectors to the bike network. Combined with the planned reworking of mellon park, lot's of neighborhoods are about to be better connected for cycling.
Older pdf of the project:
https://static1.squarespace.com/stat...l+Greenway.pdf
Vague article:
https://triblive.com/local/project-t...bakery-square/
Edit: The article incorrectly references a 1.5 mile long connector. However, the repurposed railroad route is only 1000ft long. The whole route behind bakery square, including existing driveways on both ends, totals less than a quarter mile.