Branciforte Creek Bike/Pedestrian Bridge ribbon cutting ceremony
UPDATE September 28, 2017 6:15pm
The City of Santa Cruz held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Branciforte Creek Bicycle/ Pedestrian and Multi-Use Trail on Thursday.
The project will help to increase walking, biking and safety in Santa Cruz while serving a wide spectrum of active transportation users. The new multi-use path connects the levee trail south of the Soquel Avenue Bridge completing the gap in the 5-mile Riverwalk system that runs north-south through the center of Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz resident and City Transportation Planner, Cory Caletti, says “Before the opening of this bridge you had to go around and on to the street and counter traffic and that was a deterrent. And it’s just fantastic now.”
Construction of the area was completed two months ahead of schedule. Officials say it includes a prefabricated 126-foot long bridge. Decomposed granite shoulders and lights have been recently installed with two more decorative lights on order. And plantings along the trail will be completed by the end of September and fill-in over the next year.
Construction was funded by a $1.8 million California State Active Transportation Program grant and $400,000 in local Gas Tax funds.
Thursday was also the launch of Go Santa Cruz, and initiative to reduce single-occupant car rides and green house gas emissions. Go Santa Cruz is also partnering with a bike share company that will launch a new bike share program that will launch next year.
“The City of Santa Cruz is so excited to partner with social bicycles to bring 250 bike share bikes to the city in early 2018.” Says Transportation Planner Claire Fliesler.
The City is also working on a number of other projects to make getting around Santa Cruz easier.
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The City of Santa Cruz has opened the Branciforte Creek Bicycle/Pedestrian Bridge and Multi-Use Trail Project for the public to use starting today.
The project will help to increase walking, biking and safety in Santa Cruz while serving a wide spectrum of active transportation users. The new multi-use path connects the levee trail south of the Soquel Avenue Bridge completing the gap in the 5-mile Riverwalk system that runs north-south through the center of Santa Cruz.
Construction of the area was completed two months ahead of schedule. Officials say it includes a prefabricated 126-foot long bridge. Decomposed granite shoulders and lights have been recently installed with two more decorative lights on order. And plantings along the trail will be completed by the end of September and fill-in over the next year.
Construction was funded by a $1.8 million California State Active Transportation Program grant and $400,000 in local Gas Tax funds.
On Thursday, Sept. 28, there will be a formal ribbon-cutting at 12 noon to celebrate completion of the project.
