Obama administration spends taxpayer $$ on bike trail for hippies, homosexuals and drug dealers

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Right now in Washington, the beautiful Riverwalk Trail extends 12 miles from Nationals Park to Benning Road, where it stops just four miles from a vibrant 40-mile trail system that takes trail users in Maryland all the way to the Bladensburg Water Park. For folks on bike and foot, this four-mile gap between DC and Bladensburg is a considerable obstacle that prevents a successful commute, blocks access to an urban waterfront, and impedes recreation.

That is about to change.

Yesterday, our Deputy Secretary John Porcari joined Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, DC Mayor Vincent Gray, US Senator Paul Sarbanes, and US Representatives Eleanor Holmes Norton and Donna Edwards to unveil the design of the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens segment that will finally connect these two regional trail systems into a more useable single transportation network.

The four-mile connecting segment is funded in part by a grant from our successful TIGER program.

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When the final segment is complete in 2014, area residents will benefit from a trail that passes through the Kenilworth Parkside and Mayfair neighborhoods then uses a series of 10-to-12-foot-wide asphalt, concrete, and boardwalk trails through the Aquatic Gardens, passing under U.S. 50 and the Amtrak Northeast Corridor and over several tributaries. Along the way, bicyclists and pedestrians will enjoy spectacular views of the Anacostia River.

http://fastlane.dot.gov/2012/10/completing-the-anacostia-trail.html#.UH143oYYU30

[justashooter 430]

some very rich people in some really nice developments are gonna be royally pissed when their backyards turn into ghetto trails.

[GandK 168]

Good

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Imagine my surprise. I was sure it was an article about Vermont

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

some very rich people in some really nice developments are gonna be royally pissed when their backyards turn into ghetto trails.

Your going to read about people being raped and mugged on those trails sooner or later and most likely those people in the better neigbhorhoods are going to sell and move further out in the country. It's a given.

[decocker 7,198]

the rich in nova/dc/md already have ghettos in their back yards for the most part. that's just the demographic of the area - super rich government worker types OR super poor crack smoking mug a jogger types...