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Washington DC's new BikeStation – http://www.flickr.com/photos/brownpau/ / CC BY 2.0 A segment on NPR this morning (via Facebook) covered the new, nearly complete BikeStation outside of Washington, DC’s Union Station. Implementation of the BikeStation concept varies, but they generally provide secure, sheltered bicycle parking for a modest membership fee. They often have a mechanic on hand [...] Tuesday marked the opening of Phase 1 of the Fred Meijer Millennium Trail that will eventually connect Johnson Park to John Ball Park. Words can’t really describe how great this new trail is, so I will just agree with Fred Meijer and say, “It’s beautiful, absolutely beautiful.” And it starts less than 2 1/2 miles from [...] The City of Grand Rapids will likely reject the two lowest bids for the renovation of an old railroad bridge connecting the Black Hills Neighborhood to the future Butterworth Park (2mb .pdf of preliminary site plan) because the contractors were not properly pre-qualified to receive a contract of this type and amount. The third [...] Ball/Perkins park charette While no official results have been posted on the City’s newly designed Green Grand Rapids website, the unofficial results are pretty clear. Mountain bikers and their supporters showed up en masse to cast their dot votes to have “Multi-use natural surface trails (singletrack suitable for mtn biking, trail running, xc skiing, and [...] Two pedestrian bridges cross the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids, MI. The blue railroad bridge that connects GVSU’s Pew campus to downtown, and the former Interurban train line that used to carry passengers across the Grand River and eventually on to Muskegon (if my history is correct). I ride over each of them [...] |
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