Burbank/Chandler bike trail to Orange Line extension is underway...

I rode by this last week....there is cement from the end of the Bur/Chandler trail to just before Cahuenga...this will be very nice when its done. Just not sure how they will handle the alignment at Vineland...but it has to better than it is now!

 

Megan..glad to hear you found your way around the SGRT...is is really nice once you are familar with it!

 

herb

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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:57:26 -0000
From: "bike_with_us"
Subject: after riding SGRT thoughts

Hi all:

I am happy to report to you that I've ridden the SGRT last Monday
while visiting my parents. Also I am no longer part of team Wrong Way
on SGRT :)

It was an interesting ride. I was determined to explore this trail,
so told my poor cycling friend that with or without him, I am going.
Poor man, he had other plan but scrapped it to come out to meet and
ride with me. Saying that it'd be impossible for me to navigate the
trail. He was right. That trail is convolute, tough to avoid
becoming part of Team Wrong Way.

We met and started in Monrovia. From here to the path is easy, it's
from the path to the Santa Fe dam which is little hard, for the
uninitiated person such as I. As you need to make a left turn on the
path at the park bathroom, go a short distance, turn right to pick up
the path rather than straight. Ride to top of dam, then descend it,
go across a street to pick up the path. Stay on it, until the path
mile marker is around 22.50(??? I might be off here), get to the
four-corner intersection, thank you to the folks who have pointed this
out, you know who you are.

Take the left artery of the four-corner. Ride on it for a little
while, beware of the path is split to straight and left. Take the
left, stay on the path. It takes to around and to the right. Stay on
this path, not too long, it ends, dumps you on a street (the street
must be Beverly??). Go right on this street and make a U-turn to get
to the other side of the street to pick up the path.

This is confusing and of course, the wonderful ppl who built this path
trusts that we, cyclists have embedded navigation system and need no
signs for direction.

This trail seems to need signs at least at four locations. One set at
the Duarte area in the park area to point out that you need to turn
left at bathroom to pick up the trail to the dam. Second set at the
four-corner intersection, third set at that strange area where you
need to ride left and descend down a small hill to pick up the path,
and the fourth to point out that you need to do an U-turn on the
street to get to the other side.

The mile posts on SGRT seems to work well (knock on wood that
vandalizers would not read this), so these signs may be stenciled on
the ground at the intersection, when the cyclists would need to decide
where to turn.

All in all, the trail is great, just not in good shape as the LA River
path. The narrow tunnels are pretty scary riding in them as you could
not see broken glasses or whatever to avoid them.

In retrospect, I think it was a good thing that I was lost and
stumbled on the LA river trail ;) since now I have options to ride
either to LgBch or SealBch. It was a great exploration after all.

Thanks for reading my verbose message, and tailwind to you all,
Megan








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