The City of Industry is moving forward with fairly ambitious plans for its East-West Bikeway Project. It's a ten-mile long bike path that would span the city - from Grand Avenue in the east to 7th Avenue in the west.
A few years ago Industry secured a $1.5 million Metro grant to support designing and building the bikeway. Tonight, the city council is looking to approve an amendment to its Metro funding agreement - in order to get construction underway. The project is supported by the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments and the mobility non-profit ActiveSGV.
Of course, $1.5 million does not make a ten-mile bikeway, so the project is being phased. Additional funding could come from the city’s Capital Improvements fund and/or from other grants.
Phase I will be a 1.5-mile bicycle path built along the south side of Valley Boulevard from Common Avenue to Azusa Way, directly adjacent to Old Town La Puente. The uninterrupted path right-of-way is located between Valley and the adjacent parallel Union Pacific railroad. These types of paths are termed "rail-with-trail."
This area of Valley Boulevard has a rough reputation with cyclists and pedestrians, as it lacks sidewalks on both sides. Quieter residential Inyo Street is a popular alternative for cyclists.
Bus service is on Valley, and the Azusa Avenue bridge is key for cyclists working in Industry. So Valley makes sense as the place to build safe, new facilities serving bike commuters and transit riders.
Apparently later phases, the majority of the project, will be on the other side of the tracks. Plans call for the path to be located about a block south of Valley along San Jose Creek. This will be part of the SGV Greenway Network, which also includes a plan to build on Pomona’s portion of the concrete-lined creek.
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