Three Mile Hike
May 21st, 2005 by Editor B
Michael H. and David B. and I went for a three-mile hike along an abandoned railway corridor that cuts through Mid-City. We think it’s an excellent candidate for a rails-to-trails conversion. This was an just initial exploratory scoping. More to come. (I took a couple hundred photos!)
I also got a sunburn.
May 22nd, 2005 at 9:45 am
I too got sunburned. Yesterday there were record high temperatures in N.O.
May 3rd, 2006 at 8:28 pm
[...] It got my attention because I’d also had my eye on that parcel of land as part of a rails-to-trails project that I was researching pre-Katrina. [...]
May 15th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
[...] On May 21st of last year, with a couple friends, I hiked about three miles through New Orleans following the (mostly) abandoned Norfolk-Southern rail line. This line runs from Armstrong Park to Canal Boulevard, through the area known as the “Lafitte Corridor.” (Click to enlarge the map.) [...]
May 7th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
[...] day in May 2005, three friends got together and hiked three miles through the heart of New Orleans along the old [...]
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:17 pm
[...] this is the right choice at this moment. It so happens that David was the person who first got me interested in the Lafitte Greenway project which has been slowly inching [...]
June 7th, 2009 at 10:04 am
[...] 2005: 3 2006: 18 2007: 17 2008: 60 2009: 200 [...]
April 15th, 2011 at 12:36 pm
[...] Friends of Lafitte Corridor for five years. (In fact it’s been a personal vision of mine for six years.) I was at the meeting where Design Workshop was selected last summer. Since then, we’ve been [...]
February 16th, 2012 at 12:43 pm
[...] and very proud of the role I’ve played in moving it forward. I convened the inaugural hike in May of 2005; I was a founding member of Friends of Lafitte Corridor; I’ve served as FOLC’s [...]