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
[...] I first learned of the project when I saw it on the City Planning Commission’s docket. 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. So I contacted some people that also had an interest in the trail idea. I was psyched when I learned the LIFT project includes a bike path. This could be just the catalyst to get that larger linear park/bike path built. (More on that in the near future.) But all the people I spoke to seemed to think we shouldn’t go to the press too soon. They wanted to play it a little closer to the vest. That’s not my style, and I didn’t really follow the logic, but I deferred to their judgment. [...]
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 [...]