You might think a bike path started in 2004 would be easy navigate and safe to ride in 2007. Well, woh hoh my friend you’d be wrong. There have long been plans to build a bike path connecting Providence to the East Bay Bike path, which starts in East Providence and goes to Bristol, but completion it appears is not on horizon.

A somewhat functional path has appeared recently in an effort to connect the Woonasquatucket River Bikeway to the East Bay path via Riverside Park in Olneyville, through downtown, and over to India Point. This wannabe bike path consist of some signs on Manton Ave., Delaney & Valley Sts. and then an actual bike line begins on Kinsley Ave. After you get under the Mall you make your way the best you can across town, then up and down college hill, hopefully you end up at India Point Park and then you realize you can’t even get across the river because everything is under construction. Whoops!

I guess I can understand the fact that I195 is being moved but even getting there from the West Side is no walk (ride) in the park. Most of the streets in Olneyville are too narrow to really accomodate a bike lane, especially considering the way people drive around here: 10 feet of asphalt = 3 lanes. Maybe with all the so-called luxury lofts commercial coming online people will start to care about how shitty and nerve wracking biking/driving/walking around here can be. Until then peddle down the middle of the road, walk into traffic without looking and act like you want to hit the guy in front of you who’s stopped at the red light. Maybe it’s better that way.

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