The Greenway
Drats! Cold weather has returned! I enjoyed the past four days playing outside. I even enjoyed the recent rains of near biblical proportions. It temporarily turned a large portion of our cul-de-sac into a wading pool. My grandson and dog had a big time playing in the 'puddle'..... to be a kid again! (or even a dog for that matter…)
Speaking of playing outside, it is great to see the New Albany portion of the Greenway Project will finally be getting underway. Thanks to those involved, especially Valla Ann Bolovschak, for representing our local interests and making sure the necessary funding is obtained. [Let's not allow the mayor screw up this project, like almost all else he has touched!] For those who may not already know, Valla Ann is a member of the Ohio River Greenway Commission.
Just this past Sunday our family, some fellow parishioners and friends participated in the Louisville AIDS Walk. The walk took participants across the Clark Memorial Bridge and along a portion of the riverfront in Jeffersonville. Some co-walkers from Louisville, and even from Indiana, had never been down along that part of the Indiana riverfront. Many remarked on the beautiful views and surrounding scenery.
I started thinking how cool it would have been if these 3,000-some people could have proceeded on via the Greenway into an (albeit revitalized) downtown New Albany. If the ped/walkway was finished across the K&I railroad bridge, we could have organized walks/bikes, mutual community activites and recreation across this bridge as well!
After the walk, three carloads of us Greenway-intrigued folks drove back across the bridge, down past the Falls of the Ohio, over the floodwall to the George Rogers Clark Home Site State Park, across the new bridge, and snaked into New Albany via “junkyard row” (anyone know who owns the old interurban car sitting along the riverfront?) We then proceeded to the Loop Island Wetlands to look at the location(s) where the Greenway could/would cross Silver Creek into New Albany proper. Only two of us had ever been to the wetlands, and all were amazed at this treasure in such an unseemly place.
I do not yet know how and where the Greenway will terminate in New Albany (hopefully in a very apparent open, inviting and attractive area.) It did however begin to dawn on me that the Greenway has much potential to attract and channel many new people into downtown New Albany, I believe many more new people than Scribner Place.
And think of the expanded possibilities if the K&I crossing becomes a reality?
To dream like a kid again!
Speaking of playing outside, it is great to see the New Albany portion of the Greenway Project will finally be getting underway. Thanks to those involved, especially Valla Ann Bolovschak, for representing our local interests and making sure the necessary funding is obtained. [Let's not allow the mayor screw up this project, like almost all else he has touched!] For those who may not already know, Valla Ann is a member of the Ohio River Greenway Commission.
Just this past Sunday our family, some fellow parishioners and friends participated in the Louisville AIDS Walk. The walk took participants across the Clark Memorial Bridge and along a portion of the riverfront in Jeffersonville. Some co-walkers from Louisville, and even from Indiana, had never been down along that part of the Indiana riverfront. Many remarked on the beautiful views and surrounding scenery.
I started thinking how cool it would have been if these 3,000-some people could have proceeded on via the Greenway into an (albeit revitalized) downtown New Albany. If the ped/walkway was finished across the K&I railroad bridge, we could have organized walks/bikes, mutual community activites and recreation across this bridge as well!
After the walk, three carloads of us Greenway-intrigued folks drove back across the bridge, down past the Falls of the Ohio, over the floodwall to the George Rogers Clark Home Site State Park, across the new bridge, and snaked into New Albany via “junkyard row” (anyone know who owns the old interurban car sitting along the riverfront?) We then proceeded to the Loop Island Wetlands to look at the location(s) where the Greenway could/would cross Silver Creek into New Albany proper. Only two of us had ever been to the wetlands, and all were amazed at this treasure in such an unseemly place.
I do not yet know how and where the Greenway will terminate in New Albany (hopefully in a very apparent open, inviting and attractive area.) It did however begin to dawn on me that the Greenway has much potential to attract and channel many new people into downtown New Albany, I believe many more new people than Scribner Place.
And think of the expanded possibilities if the K&I crossing becomes a reality?
To dream like a kid again!
posted by blogtastic at 10:36 AM
3 Comments:
Kudos to Janet Hayes for her 'seasonal approach' to drawing more people downtown at the Haunted Cellar in New Albany.
The wetlands would be obliterated by the proposed automotive bridge. The Greenway simply must be scaled back to being a bicycle and pedestrian path, and I'm fairly sure that VAB is in agreement on this point.
new albanian,
I agree.
There is absolutely no justification, economically nor environmentally, for another vehicular bridge across Silver Creek at the wetlands.
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