http://bikeverywhere.com Publishing popular bicycling guides since 1984 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:50:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [gallery]Trail enthusiasts referred to it as the “Lost Four Miles,” an unpaved four-mile section that, when completed, would connect the Central Lakes Trail and the Lake Wobegon Trail to create a single 120-mile trail, the longest in Minnesota. By the evening of Thursday, August 9, 2008 the paving crew had ... http://bikeverywhere.com/paving-the-lost-four-miles/ [caption id="attachment_870" align="left" width="150" caption="Diagonal Trail"][/caption][caption id="attachment_874" align="left" width="150" caption="Diagonal Trail North"][/caption]I spent a couple of hours revisiting the Diagonal Trail at New Brighton Blvd and I-35W on Sunday. The visit generated a series of changes and updates to the Twin Cities Bike Map. The most obvious change is the ... http://bikeverywhere.com/minneapolis-diagonal-trail-revisited/ [caption id="attachment_857" align="left" width="150" caption="Aldine St. Bike Bridge"][/caption]This is a note I received today from Brady Clark of Smart-Trips.org, a group dedicated to helping folks get around via non-automotive methods. Hi Doug- We were producing a neighborhood amenities map for our Smart Trips Neighborhoods program, and noticed that the Twin Cities Bike ... http://bikeverywhere.com/aldine-st-bike-bridge/ Maps are dynamic. Bike routes change, new trails get built and old ones extended. Some trails get shut down, temporarily, because of nearby construction or because the trail itself needs an overhaul. Well post the updates here, then provide a permanent, one-top page for all of the posts within each ... http://bikeverywhere.com/map-updates/ [caption id="attachment_833" align="left" width="131" caption="Lake Country Trail Extension"][/caption]The Lake Country Trail, in the wetern suburbs of Milwaukee, has been extended. The extension runs from the intersection of County Rd P and I-94 in Oconomowoc. It follows the western edge of County Rd P north to Valley Rd, then turns west ... http://bikeverywhere.com/lake-country-trail-extended/ [caption id="attachment_793" align="left" width="150" caption="New Luce Line alignment"][/caption]The last link of the Luce Line Trail has been connected to Theodore Wirth Parkway. As of late June, a short stretch of the trail had been paved. the trail still needed striping and landscaping around the edges, but the trail appears to ... http://bikeverywhere.com/luce-line-trail-extended/ [gallery columns="2"]The new Riverwest Trail between Burleigh St and Keefe Ave in Milwaukee is open for bicyclists. The trail, on the old Beer Line, runs only half a dozen blocks, but it has the potential to be extended much further. Bruce Thompson, the Milwaukee bike route researcher for the Milwaukee ... http://bikeverywhere.com/new-riverwest-trail-in-milwaukee/ Some things have gotten better and some worse in Minneapolis. Better: The Washington Ave Bridge over the Mississippi River has reopened. Bikes and pedestrians have full access to the upper deck of the bridge again. The bridge had been closed due to structural problems. The problems have been corrected. Worse: Marquette ... http://bikeverywhere.com/minneapolis-bike-detour-updates/ One of the toughest tasks when printing is discovering a mistake just as the presses begin to roll. This is one of those mistakes. Several roads north of Racine slipped through without labels. Here's the corrected version. The new Milwaukee and SE Wisconsin Bike Map is scheduled for release on ... http://bikeverywhere.com/update-before-the-map-is-published/ [gallery columns="2"]The 2nd edition of the Madison and Dane County Bike Map contains an error north of Paoli. The route identified as County Road PB, then Range Trail Rd, going north from Paoli is Range Trail Rd the entire distance. The heavier black line to the east of Range Trail ... http://bikeverywhere.com/map-update-range-trail-road/