Starting at a new purpose-built Luton Parkway station – which connects to the Network Rail station – the Dart will run on a 350m long viaduct, before transitioning to a 72m long, 1,000t steel truss bridge with composite deck that runs over a live dual carriageway.
The Dart then weaves its way past Luton Airport’s landing lights, through a 600m long cut and fill section before entering a 500m long concrete base trough section.
It then heads underground into a 350m cut and cover tunnel, which dips beneath the airport’s taxiway and into a new Central Terminal station, 20m beneath the airport’s current “drop-off” area.
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New rider David Ludeke hits the trails on his mountain bike at Luton Park in Rockford. Image: Lindsay McCoy
By Lindsay McCoy
Capital News Service
David Ludeke and his wife bought a Peloton early in the pandemic as a way to stay active. After almost a year of riding the stationary bike, this spring he decided it was time to take his spinning out of the house.
“I figured I’d take the skills from the bike to nowhere and go outside and get on a mountain bike,” said Ludeke, who is from Rockford, Michigan
. “I ran into the issue of ‘there’s no bikes anywhere.’ I even dabbled with the idea of getting a mountain bike last year, but bikes were super back-ordered then as well.”
A flythrough video released by the project promoter shows that main construction of the route and stations is now complete. (See video below.) Work to fit
Michigan’s 10 best cross-country ski trails, from the U.P. to Metro Detroit
Updated Dec 18, 2020;
Posted Dec 17, 2020
In this file photo, cross-country skiers climbs a hill at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore s Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive. MLive file photoBPN
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Michigan is teeming with winter recreation opportunities with trails throughout the state offering ideal settings for activities from snowmobiling to snowshoeing to cross-country skiing.
Wisconsin-based blog NorwiSki knows the Mitten State is a great place to get down in the powder. In a recent article, the blog named Michigan’s 10 best cross-country ski trails. Several are in the western Upper Peninsula near Wisconsin, but the Mitten claims six of the 10 - see NorwiSki’s map below.