Category: Bike lanes

The Town of Apple Valley held a “vision workshop” last night (Wednesday, October 6th), with the expressed goal of help set policies for the parks and recreation department for the next 20 years. For the most part, this was a waste of two perfectly good hours, as Apple Valley has contracted with a firm called MIG to help them with their “vision,” and MIG’s representative seemed set on making the process so general as to be meaningless.
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Work has definitely started. The old roadway seems to be gone completely.

There are now "Detour" signs up at various locations surrounding and adjacent to this section of road, and there is a sign notifying drivers that work is to run from September 20th through November 17th. Other than the signs, though, there seems not to be any actual road work started.

According to the Town’s website, this work was supposed to begin on September 2nd, and be completed by November 17th. According to one of the Town’s engineers, the work was supposed to begin around September 8th and be done by the first week in October.
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We just heard about this, so details are a bit sketchy, but word is that the Town of Apple Valley is getting ready to repave Dale Evans Parkway between Waalew at the north and Otoe at the south, adding bike lanes at the same time. This long-needed improvement of “slaughter alley” will connect the existing bike paths on Waalew and Dale Evans south of Otoe. Furthermore, we hear that this will be completed Fall 2010.
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