The city is using ~$1 million of $3.5 million set aside for Greenville Health System Swamp Rabbit Trail expansions on a few smaller projects after shifting focus away from a stalled extension to Lake Conestee. How exactly will that $1 mil be distributed?
- Protected bike lanes. But first, the city needs to study how feasible that really is on Greenville’s busy streets. 🚗 Looking at stretches between Townes + Richardson and Washington + McBee and a mile from Pendleton to downtown will take up most of the initial expense.
- $15,000 is going toward preliminary engineering (prep work like design + exact location) for a trail from Cleveland Park to a bridge over Laurens Rd to CU-ICAR. Steel rails have already been removed from the abandoned rail bed the trail will follow.
- Another big chunk will go toward studying a potential tie between the Swamp Rabbit Trail extension at Laurens + Haywood Mall. Called the Laurel Creek trail, it would link the mall to the Laurens Rd extension, with street crossings and pedestrian bridges. 👟
- Another $15,000 will go toward completion of the Sliding Rock Mountain Bike Trail in Nicholtown, adding an entrance + things like signs, benches + trash cans.
- The city wants to develop a trail from the Greenville Zoo and McBee Station near Publix downtown. 🦁 It’s included in their project initiative, but funding hasn’t been secured yet.
