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June 9, 2005
Midtown Greenway
We went on a great urban bike ride yesterday evening. Up to campus, over the river, then hooked up with the bike path heading South along the Hiawatha Light Rail line. It crosses over Hiawatha at 28th St SE and picks up the Midtown Greenway.
The Midtown Greenway is spectacular! There are newly planted trees, flowers, and sod. It really is like a beautiful park -- a long and narrow beautiful park right through the city. We'd not been on the middle part since they finished it. Well, it was finished and then closed for construction of the Midtown Exchange at the old Sears site on Chicago & Lake. There's still a detour around the construction, but it will be finished and there will be a Grand (Re)Opening party on June 25th.
The last section of the Greenway yet to be built will extend the trail to the Mississippi River. This will be great for us Saint Paul-ites to have a trail that can link us more directly to all of the great Minneapolis bike trails around the Lakes and further West.
Posted by rigd0003 at June 9, 2005 11:03 AM | Cycling