dominion blvd: 18 Million Dollar Bike Path To Now Where
- 09/24/08 06:46 AM
I wrote a post recently about a bike path for the new Dominion Blvd widening project in Chesapeake. Well now the project has grown and that makes the bike path more expensive by $2 million dollars. We are talking about 6,000 feet of bike path. To the cities credit, they are trying to reduce the cost without doing away with the bike path which the state won't let happen anyway. Stay tuned and we will see if it goes any higher. http://www.geneallen.com/ Come and see ALL the Homes for Sale in Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Norfolk, as well as the rest of Hampton Roads. (2 comments)
dominion blvd: $16 Million Bike Path to Nowhere
- 09/08/08 06:38 AM
Actually the bike path leads to somewhere but it is not the end of a rainbow but at that cost it should be. Chesapeake is widening Dominion Blvd and the state requires a bike path be installed. The cost is $16 million. That seems like a lot of money but is only 4% of the total cost of the improvements. The city had thought that it made the bike path go away earlier this year only to find it back this month. As a bike rider myself, I like to see a nice path along a 55 mph road on which (0 comments)