LEAVING FAST LANE LANCASTER OFFICIALS OPEN NEW BIKEWAY.Byline: Peggy Hager Staff Writer LANCASTER - City Council members and local bicycle enthusiasts pedaled along Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling to open up the city's $1.8 million bicycle path bicycle path n → camino para ciclistas bicycle path n, bicycle track n → piste f cyclable bicycle path n Tuesday. Trees, shrubs and vines were planted to screen the Metrolink tracks that run beside the highway from the 3-mile-long bikeway bike·way n. A bicycle lane or path. , joining up at Avenue M with a Palmdale bike path. ``I've been a part of the city of Lancaster The City of Lancaster (2002 population: 133,914) is a local government district with city status in Lancashire, England. Its main town is Lancaster, from which it obtained its city status. Other towns in the district include Morecambe, Heysham, Slyne, and Carnforth. for 42 years, and I think it's great that they finally have a bike path that we can (ride) to and from Palmdale,'' said bicycle rider Terry Ritz. City employee Reginald Owen, who restores bikes as a hobby, loaned special bicycles to officials for the opening ride. Mayor Frank Roberts Frank Roberts may refer to:
stingray or whip-tailed ray Any of various species (family Dasyatidae) of rays noted for their slender, whiplike tail with barbed, usually venomous spines. . The bikeway was funded by $1,291,000 in federal funds Federal Funds Funds deposited to regional Federal Reserve Banks by commercial banks, including funds in excess of reserve requirements. Notes: These non-interest bearing deposits are lent out at the Fed funds rate to other banks unable to meet overnight reserve distributed by the Metropolitan Transit Authority in 2000, plus about $520,000 in city funds. The work was done by Asphalt Construction. ``I feel that finally I see what the $1.3 million that I voted for (in) the MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. can finally do. I'm happy about that,'' said Roberts, who is also an MTA board member. There was a setback to the bikeway in November 2002 when city officials decided that a $130,000 concrete barrier installed at the Avenue L overpass, to protect cyclists from cars, was ugly and too close to motor vehicle traffic. It was torn down. The Lancaster bikeway was one of a couple dozen projects funded in MTA competition among about 700 proposals, said Phil Ganezer, MTA transportation manager. ``Relative to other projects, this was one of the best projects there was: the cost, the safety issues it addresses,'' said Ganezer. Ganezer said the new bikeway is a link in a chain of routes for bicycle riders. ``There's a very long path that it actually creates, and it hooks up to other crossing paths, so we're setting up a sort of a web here to allow people to get virtually anywhere they want on a bicycle.'' Cyclist Randy Bushee appreciates the path. ``I'm getting more into bicycle-friendly communities and that kind of stuff, so I think it's neat that Lancaster's doing that. And I'm sure I'll use it,'' added Bushee. Peggy Hager, (661) 267-5741 peggy.grimm-hager(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Lancaster Mayor Frank Roberts leads bicycle riders opening a $1.8 million, 3-mile-long bike path Tuesday by Sierra Highway. (2 -- color) Mayor Frank Roberts, in front, and Vice Mayor Henry Hearns of Lancaster ride a bicycle built for two along a new city path by Sierra Highway. (3) State Sen. William ``Pete'' Knight, the test pilot who set the still-standing airplane speed record in 1967, rides Tuesday on a Schwinn Stingray bike. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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