If you were to bike or walk from Downtown to the East 55th Marina today, the trip wouldn't be anything of note or necessarily safe. You would most likely take North Marginal Road, and traverse done most of the way in the street, which is in serious need of repaving, alongside vehicles.
North Marginal Road is, today, a hazardous way of getting from Downtown to the East Side without a car. That will change in 2026, when the Marginal Road Greenway plans to open.
On Monday morning, a dais of city and county officials gladly announced that the hazardous route will, in two years, be a trip of the past as the North Marginal Greenway, a three-mile multi-purpose trail lined with trees and lights, will be completed by the end of 2026. Long a pipedream of an idea stemming back to the Michael White administration of the 1990s, the project gained steam through the assembled partners and met a $12-million fundraising goal.
It's just that move to empasize that sort of travel, NOACA Director Grace Gallucci told the crowd, that allowed the agency to chip in $6 million in the first place, in Carbon Reduction Program funds that came straight from the Biden-Harris administration."Why?" she said."Because building bicycle infrastructure removes cars off the road, slows traffic congestion, helps reduce carbon emissions.
"But it's going to be like a legit, Metroparks-level, standard-grade trail," Kidd said, looking around at the Marina,"that's going to connect East 9th all the way to here." As for the Shoreway itself, plans for a downgrade—or"reassignment," as MOCAP assistant director Keisha Chambers said at the North Coast Master Plan update last week—have only been confirmed with Bibb's plans for the lakefront from West 3rd to East 9th. Plans that will run into hiccups, of course, if the Haslams decide to take the team south to Brook Park.The same spirit hints around the future of Burke Lakefront Airport.
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