Make way for Bicycles
Don't they know May is National Bicycle Month? Whenever a tree falls across a bicycle facility during National Bicycle Month, a path should be cleared within 18 hours. This was more like 18 days.
I am kidding because it was no big deal to take a detour for a couple of weeks. Riding the other side of Candler Park allowed my path to overlap Mike's path. He's a professor at Georgia Tech with whom I've ridden along to the office on occasion.
I like to include this picture for a couple of reasons:
- It's cool how you go under one of the branches.
- It shows -- despite almost no photo evidence on this blog to the contrary -- that I do ride in the rain.
Here are a couple of panoramas. This first taken from the bridge shows how backed up the stream has gotten from the tree limbs blocking the flow.
This second panorama shows the length of the tree alongside the path. Bicycle is directly under the overhead branch.
Commute Summary
Round Trip Distance: 17.1
Number of Cyclists seen: 11 (numbers do drop when it rains)
In-bound Route: Lullwater/PATH trail
Out-bound Route: Emory via Clifton
Weather: Repeated stretches of rain
Labels: trees
posted by Jett @ 7:29 PM
2 comments
2 Comments:
Thanks for the photo verification about that tree being cleared, Jett.
Also, your many pictures do good justice to our city and its many landscapes, I must say.
A year before moving here, I had no knowledge of Atlanta's look and feel, and I even had a leaning-to-negative attitude from friends' who lived here in the early 1990s.
Had I known of your site and all your good pictures then, my 'tude would have been much different.
I mean to say, your writing and pictures here are a great resource. Being on the "inside" of town so long has allowed you many telling reflections on all the city's changes, and it seems you often see things as if you were "outside" . . . because you are, a lot . . . outside, that is.
And a p.s. to the picture of that tree straddling the Candler Park path:
The crossing trunk was remarkably lower this afternoon when I passed it both ways.
It's still ride-able, but just.
Limbo-style it is.
Makes a person smile with relief when the helmet doesn't scrape.
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