While on the road ride on Tuesday, I noticed that some work had been done along the walkway between Butte & Rocker. There is a 1 mile section of paved walkway between Rocker and Butte. Unfortunately the walkway does not really connect to anything but you can tell a lot of effort has been put into paving the walkway and construction of some pretty high end facilities on either end of the 1 mile strip.
New parking lots have been put in on either end too. This project reminds me a bit of the bridge/overpass to nowhere along I-70 in Colorado. There is an exit on I-70 west of Denver in the mountains that is literally an overpass and nothing else! It goes nowhere, just dead ends...a project where perhaps funds needed to be spent for the sake of spending them or losing them.
It is great to have the paved walkway but it seems a little overboard to put in the nice new facilities and parking areas for a 1 mile stretch that comes from and goes to....nowhere. Hopefully the grand master plan is to continue to build out the walkway from/to nowhere so it continues or links to more than the existing paltry 1 mile.
New parking lots have been put in on either end too. This project reminds me a bit of the bridge/overpass to nowhere along I-70 in Colorado. There is an exit on I-70 west of Denver in the mountains that is literally an overpass and nothing else! It goes nowhere, just dead ends...a project where perhaps funds needed to be spent for the sake of spending them or losing them.
It is great to have the paved walkway but it seems a little overboard to put in the nice new facilities and parking areas for a 1 mile stretch that comes from and goes to....nowhere. Hopefully the grand master plan is to continue to build out the walkway from/to nowhere so it continues or links to more than the existing paltry 1 mile.
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