The Parkway trail is dangerously crowded and as the Parkway gains more users, it will become more so.
It is time that a separate trail be blazed and developed for pedestrians—and it needs to be of a consistency that parents pushing baby strollers and the frail elderly can safely use it—allowing the paved bike trail to be restricted to bikes.
Back-Seat Driver: Bring tolerance as you run/bike/stroll on American River Parkway
By Tony Bizjak - tbizjak@sacbee.com
Published 12:00 am PDT Monday, April 21, 2008
Can't we just get along out on the bike trail?
Apparently not.
Spring weather is here, and so are the annual conflicts on the region's recreational Eden – the ribbonlike American River Parkway bike and recreation trail.
We're not talking about the woman who got bit by the rattlesnake. We're talking about the venom exchanged by cyclists, walkers, runners, baby-stroller pushers and others commingling on the thin strip of asphalt.
