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The path west from the Katy Trail requires crossing under the Stemmons Freeway and DART rail tracks.
The Dallas City Council Wednesday approved $1.5 million to add bike lanes and sidewalks to the Hi Line Drive underpass and a new trail in the middle of Hi Line Drive to the west of the freeway to connect with other trails.
“That would be great. I d love to see that as soon as possible,” Rodriguez said.
The Hi Line Connector is a key portion of The Loop trail, a 50-mile circuit trail planned around the entire city.
A Trinity Forest Spine Trail segment of that loop received more than $3 million Wednesday.
(Courtesy: Circuit Trail Conservancy)
courtesy of Circuit Trail Conservancy
The 50-Mile Loop Trail Is One Step Away From Beginning Construction
Construction could begin as early as June. The trail will connect 39 existing miles of trail and create a new 9-mile path from White Rock to the Trinity Forest.
By Matt Goodman
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May 25, 2021
10:15 am
The 50-mile Loop Trail is one council vote away from beginning construction. The Park and Recreation Board last week approved a $5.7 million construction bid for the first phase of the project, which will pave a new trail just below White Rock Lake through what is now the Tenison Glen golf course. That course, as you’ll recall, will soon be reduced from 18 holes to 9 and turned into a nature preserve to follow the findings of the Samuell Grand Master Plan. The trail will run through it.
Nine-hole course and nature area make sense, but these East Dallas parks also need better access
After the park board votes Thursday on the Samuell Grand-Tenison master plan, basics such as sidewalks, trails and crosswalks must not be forgotten.
Erosion from White Rock Creek has taken a toll on the Tenison Glen Golf Course at Samuell Grand Park, so the master plan calls for turning it into a 9-hole course and converting the eastern section into a nature preserve.(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer)
More of us might embrace Samuell Grand-Tenison as the best parks network in East Dallas if it wasn’t next to impossible for users to find and make our way around its green spaces and if its closest neighbors didn’t risk becoming road kill each time we cross the dragstrips that form its perimeter.