<a href="http://wcpo.com/news/2005/local/04/27/bike_trail.html">According to wcpo.com</a>, it looks like Terrace Park has finally dropped its opposition to the bike trail passing through. Of course, the opposition was based on fear of the criminal element that having a bike trail brings to a community, with all of those hooligan road bikers and ruffian joggers and rollerbladers. I always thought it would be great to put the freight railroad back in the right-of-way, just to spite them. Anyway, just be careful to watch your speed as you ride through Terrace Park...

 

Little Miami Bike Trail Gets Green Light

Reported by: Tom McKee

Web produced by: Neil Relyea

Photographed by: 9News

4/27/2005 9:45:42 PM

 

Construction on the Little Miami Bike Trail through Terrace Park finally got the green light this week.

 

Work begins in November after years of village residents fighting the project.

 

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What the heck?  Their opposition is RIDICULOUS!

 

I just bought a house in Loveland 6 months ago and the bike trail is 1 block from my house.  It INCREASED my property value, and I can bike to work in Milford.  I bet they wouldn't want a light rail bringing those black people from otr, either.  I get so sick of people who are so friggin stupid.

Funny what things people worry about as causing 'crime'.  It's not like they are opening up a pony keg on the bike trail... anyway....

 

Does anyone have a good website for an overview of bike trail initiatives in Cincinnati.  I've heard scattered news over the last year about different bike trail proposals.  I'd love to see if there was an comprehensive collection of initiatives similar to this forum on Urban development issues.

 

Joe

Vist the Nati - http://thenati.blogspot.com

Did it say some were concerned about noise?

What noise do you get from bikes riding past? Did they not want to hear the wind rush of passing bikers?  :?

Man, I welcome a bike path being built near me.

 

jhansbau, the only real bike trail links I've been able to find are on OKI's transportation page, and they're spotty at best.

Does anyone have a good website for an overview of bike trail initiatives in Cincinnati. I've heard scattered news over the last year about different bike trail proposals. I'd love to see if there was an comprehensive collection of initiatives similar to this forum on Urban development issues.

 

For the City http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/transeng/pages/-6807-/

maps n stuff

From the 5/25/05 Eastern Hills Journal:

 

 

ODNR prepares for Little Miami Scenic Trail

By Tami Sanderson

Staff Reporter 

 

TERRACE PARK - The Little Miami Scenic Trail soon will run through Terrace Park as the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) finishes the more than 50 miles of trail.

 

In early May, ODNR representatives presented the department's plan to construct the trail through the village and received positive feedback from residents and council.

 

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http://www.communitypress.com/ColumbiaTwpOH/News.asp?pageType=Story&StoryID=13799&Section=Main%20News&OnlineSection=Main%20News&SectionPubDate=5/25/2005%207:01:22%20AM&RefDate=5/25/2005%207:01:22%20AM

 

Another leg in the connection....

 

Lebanon bike trail to open in October

The 8-mile track provides direct link with Little Miami Scenic Trail

By Karen Vance

Enquirer contributor

 

LEBANON - The residents of Lebanon said they wanted a bike trail.

 

After 14 years of planning and building, working around the habitat of an endangered bat and overcoming legal troubles, they'll have one.

 

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http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050807/NEWS01/508070364/1056

Trail nears final hurdle

Post staff report

 

Approval of a federal grant recommended by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources might be the final hurdle in the completion of the Little Miami Scenic Trail.

 

Approval of the $375,000 grant will mean there is enough money set aside to complete the $1.4 million project, which will connect the trail in Milford to downtown Cincinnati.

 

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http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051107/NEWS01/511070351

awesome!

An article in the latest issue of Rails-to-Trails (railtrails.org) describes plans for an Underground Railroad Trail from the Gulf of Mexico to southern Ontario. Passing through Ohio, the proposed trail would utilize the Western Reserve Greenway and the Little Miami Scenic Trail.

Trail nears final hurdle

Post staff report

 

Approval of a federal grant recommended by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources might be the final hurdle in the completion of the Little Miami Scenic Trail.

 

When the 2½-mile section of the trail is complete from Milford to Avoca Park west of Terrace Park, cyclists will be able to travel from downtown through Xenia to Springfield on a 12-foot-wide paved surface.

 

http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051107/NEWS01/511070351

 

Well, no not yet...maybe from the Little Miami Park at Newtown Road where cyclists will be able to travel from to Springfield, there will be a gap (s) still between there and downtowm

http://www.hamiltoncountyparks.org/index/updatedtrail.pdf

I don't know if there is a thread or info on this anywhere, but there is a plan to possible connect the Little Miami Scenic Trail to the Great Miami trail at some time. The only place I can find information is on the City of Faifield's website at http://www.fairfield-city.org/parks/miami2miami.cfm. The trail would connect in Hamilton south of dowtown and go through West Chester Township to Mason. There are 60 pages of pics of the proposed path routing.

An article in the latest issue of Rails-to-Trails (railtrails.org) describes plans for an Underground Railroad Trail from the Gulf of Mexico to southern Ontario. Passing through Ohio, the proposed trail would utilize the Western Reserve Greenway and the Little Miami Scenic Trail.

 

There was an article about that not too long ago.  In fact, I created a thread.  I'm not sure about the particulars.

This isnt your alls area, but the MVRPC has an online site for bike trails now..and maps that can be downloaded...

 

Miami Valley Recreational Trails

 

...two of these do go south into the Cincy area...

 

 

From the 12/7/05 Community Press:

 

 

UNREADABLE MAP: This map outlines the possible bike trail expansion that would run through Mariemont. The solid line indicates the piece of the trail that would go through Fairfax and Mariemont.  KEITH BARKLAGE/COMMUNITY PRESS STAFF

 

Mariemont looks into trail extension

BY LINDSAY BRAUD | COMMUNITY PRESS STAFF WRITER

 

MARIEMONT -- Fairfax approved one, as did Terrace Park. Now Mariemont is looking into the possibility of a bike trail running through the village.

 

John Heilman, technical services coordinator for OKI, spoke at the Mariemont council meeting Nov. 28 about connecting the Little Miami Scenic Trail from Cincinnati to Newtown Road.

 

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http://news.communitypress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051207/NEWS01/512070355/1074/Local

 

Scenic trail heading south

Work begins on extension through, past Terrace Park

BY FEOSHIA HENDERSON | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER

 

MILFORD - People will be able to hike and bike a little farther south on the Little Miami Scenic Trail this year.

 

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has begun to extend the trail 2.6 miles from Milford through Terrace Park.

 

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From the 5/1/06 Cincinnati Post:

 

 

Missing trail link to open

Opposition fades in Terrace Park

By Tom O'Neill

Post staff reporter

 

When state officials began trying to persuade Terrace Park residents that a bike trail wasn't so bad, Jimmy Carter was president and disco was king.

 

Today, Carter is an ex-president, disco is long dead, and the bike path is about to be born.

 

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http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060501/NEWS01/605010368

 

Last Updated: 6:10 am | Monday, May 1, 2006

Bike accidents raise concerns

'It happens all up and down the bike trail'

BY JESSICA BROWN | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER

 

Daniel Mullin watched his friend die last August.

 

It was a Sunday around 5:30 p.m. The two were bicycling southwest on the Little Miami Scenic State Park bike trail from Morrow to South Lebanon.

 

They approached the intersection of Stubbs Mills Road in rural Hamilton Township - one of about 25 road crossings on the trail. Mullin stopped at the stop sign.

 

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http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060501/NEWS01/605010343

It will be awesome if all this comes to fruition.....

 

A welcome link

 

Construction crews have been working this spring on a project that tri-state cyclists have long awaited: completion of a $1.1 million, 2.5-mile extension of the Little Miami Scenic Trail through Terrace Park.

 

For years the trailhead closest to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky population centers was in Milford. Terrace Park had long resisted extending the trail through that community, fearing disruption of its famously tranquil lifestyle. But the experience of other communities - Loveland being a prime example - appears to have allayed most of those fears.

 

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http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060512/EDIT/605120313/1003

From the 6/9/06 Enquirer:

 

 

PHOTO: Isreal Barton (left) guides Dominick Donisi on building a fence along the new portion of the Little Miami Scenic Trail in Terrace Park. This portion of the trail is 2.6 miles long.  THE ENQUIRER/LEIGH PATTON

 

Paving the way for nonstop activity

2.6-mile link of Little Miami Scenic Trail finished

BY STEVE KEMME | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER

 

TERRACE PARK - A key 2.6-mile link of the Little Miami Scenic Trail running through Terrace Park has been completed, providing joggers and bicyclists with an unbroken 70-mile paved trail.

 

The newest segment of the paved hike-bike trail, built by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, extends from Ohio 126 near U.S. 50 in Milford through Terrace Park to Avoca Park in Columbia Township. The $1.1 million segment hooks up with a two-mile section running from Avoca Park to the Little Miami Golf Center in Newtown that was recently completed by the Hamilton County Park District.

 

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http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060609/NEWS01/606090362/1056

 

From the 9/2/06 Enquirer:

 

 

Little Miami trail extension reopens

THE ENQUIRER

 

The Little Miami Scenic Trail extension through Terrace Park - closed weekdays since June - has been reopened.

 

A 2.65-mile section of the trail between the Milford trailhead and Avoca Park south of Terrace Park has been open on weekends only as crews made improvements to the trail.

 

The project was finished a month ahead of schedule, according to Scott Zody, deputy director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

 

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060902/NEWS01/609020353/1056/rss02

 

From the 11/1/06 Eastern Hills Journal:

 

 

Trail connection, not ride through, discussed

BY LIZ CAREY | COMMUNITY PRESS STAFF WRITER

 

MARIEMONT -- Mariemont Village Councilman Rex Bevis would like to see a way for Mariemont residents to get to the Little Miami Bike Trail, as long as it doesn't go through the village.

 

"What I am interested is a spur onto the existing bike trail," he said.

 

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http://news.communitypress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061101/NEWS01/611010433/1002/RSS01

 

SORTA, council moving on bike trail connection

September 11, 2007 | CINCINNATI BUSINESS COURIER

 

CINCINNATI - The move to connect the Little Miami Scenic Trail to the Lunken Trail in Cincinnati's East End finally might gain some wheels.

 

The board of the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority on Tuesday gave its support to a plan that would convert the northern track of the unused Oasis rail line, which it owns, to a temporary bike trail. The Hamilton County Park Board has also said it is willing to discuss an arrangement with SORTA whereby it would manage the construction, operation and maintenance of the Oasis line trail.

 

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For an excellent website on biking trails in the Miami Valley (centered around Dayton), go here:

 

http://www.miamivalleytrails.org/

 

For the specific discussion on expanding the LMBT south to Lunkan airport, see this section of the above website:

 

http://www.miamivalleytrails.org/Milford%20to%20Lunken%20Airport.htm

 

Grant would improve trail, Clough Pike

BY STEVE KEMME | [email protected]

 

ANDERSON TWP. - The township has applied for $4 million in federal funding to extend the Little Miami Scenic Trail and improve the Clough Pike business district corridor.

 

Anderson Township joined the Hamilton County Park District in applying for $1.9 million in federal funds to build a 2.1-mile hike/bike trail segment from where the Little Miami Scenic Trail now ends at the Little Miami Golf Center in Newtown to the intersection of Ohio 32 and Clough Pike.

 

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http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080422/NEWS01/804220355/1056/COL02

Wow, that reflects a pretty big sea change in how biking projects are viewed.  From recreation to transportation... *gasp* could it be that folks are actually starting to see bikes as the useful transportation tool that they can be?

They will apply (as others have in the past) and be denied by OKI.  OKI is quite satisfied with being focused on automobiles only.

Pessimist!  ;)

They will apply (as others have in the past) and be denied by OKI.  OKI is quite satisfied with being focused on automobiles only.

 

Poor Don Burrell. What is he doing at OKI as the Bike / Pedestrian guy if OKI is auto-oriented only?

 

Kudos to Anderson Township and the Park District. I wish the park district would be much more involved in creating a shared use network than they currently are, since compared OKI, the Hamilton County Engineer is significantly more auto-oriented.

OKI makes some great recommendations as to what the various communities should embrace per transportation issues, but they VERY rarely fund any attempt to actually make those become reality.  What good are plans if you aren't willing to implement them?  Just my 2 cents.

OKI makes some great recommendations as to what the various communities should embrace per transportation issues, but they VERY rarely fund any attempt to actually make those become reality.  What good are plans if you aren't willing to implement them?  Just my 2 cents.

 

I went to an OKI open house on the regional 2030 transportation plan - it's mind blowing - the number of new roadway projects, expansions, capacity, removing on street parking, etc. etc.

 

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,5643.0.html

Unsafe conditions on bike trail

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081111/NEWS01/311110028/1055/NEWS

 

Unsafe conditions on portions of the Little Miami Scenic Trail are prompting a new effort to fix up the popular 78-mile bike trail along the Little Miami River.

 

Several injuries have been reported in recent years and three miles of deteriorated trail are closed to the public, said Simeon Copple, owner of The Corwin Peddler, a restaurant and bike rental in Waynesville.

 

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Bike trail conditions spur action

By Carrie Whitaker • [email protected] • November 12, 2008

 

WAYNESVILLE - Unsafe conditions on portions of the Little Miami Scenic Trail are prompting a new effort to fix up the popular 78-mile bike trail along the Little Miami River.

 

Several injuries have been reported in recent years and three miles of deteriorated trail are closed, said Simeon Copple, owner of The Corwin Peddler, a restaurant and bike rental in Waynesville.

 

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http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081112/NEWS01/811120357/1055/NEWS