Lansing-East Lansing, MI Development

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The South Lansing Pathway is moving forward. It's amazing how much the city's trail system has grown under Bernero. This will be better connect east and west. Lansing has good connections north and south, but relatively weak east-west connections.

South Lansing path moving forward

By Ken Palmer | Lansing State Journal

August 22, 2013

City leaders are poised to move ahead with an estimated $2.1 million walking and bicycle path that would bisect the city’s south end, connecting with the Lansing River Trail and a planned pathway into Holt.

Decades in the planning, the South Lansing Pathway would add more than five miles to the region’s nonmotorized trail network, running from Waverly Road east to Cavanaugh Road. The route runs mainly along a Consumers Energy right-of-way.

The Lansing City Council on Monday is expected to commit funding for the west and middle segments of the pathway.

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The project would link south Lansing neighborhoods to the 13-mile-long Lansing River Trail and the Delhi North Trail Connector that eventually will tie the River Trail to an existing pathway between Holt and Willoughby roads.

Future extensions would connect Michigan State University and areas west of Waverly Road.

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Construction of the asphalt path would begin next spring and be completed in the fall, said Andy Kilpatrick, the city’s transportation engineer.

As part of the project, a section of Pleasant Grove Road will be restriped to create bike lanes that will connect to the pathway, he said.

Signals would be installed at certain road crossings, and a series of short extensions will connect the path to schools or parks.

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Description:

» The west section (1.7 miles) would run east from Waverly Road to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, passing near Wexford Elementary School and the Southside Community Center and through Benjamin Davis Park.

» The center section (1.7 miles) would run between MLK and Pennsylvania Avenue, passing near Attwood Elementary School, Ingham County Human Services and Gardner Middle School.

» The east section (1.8 miles) would go from Pennsylvania Avenue east to the railroad tracks, then north to Jolly Road and east to Aurelius Road, where it would connect with the River Trail and the proposed Delhi North Trail Connector. It would continue north through Biggie Munn Park and on to Cavanaugh Road.

Here is Lansing's Non-Motorized Plan for anyone interested.