Monday, June 14, 2004 Fairfax trail nearly done
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Bike project small cog in path from Cincinnati to Cleveland
By Jennifer Edwards
Fairfax trail
nearly done (p2
of 4) The
Cincinnati
Enquirer
FAIRFAX - A $294,766 bike trail is nearly complete as
part of efforts to spruce up this eastern Hamilton
County village.
The trail is one-eighth of a mile long and snakes along
Murray Avenue from Settle Road in Mariemont to La Crosse
Avenue in Madisonville.
It should open in about two weeks, once rules and
regulations signs are posted, landscaping is planted and
other final touches go in, Fairfax Mayor Ted Shannon said.
"People are using it even though it is not complete,"
Shannon said. Taylor Evans, 10, who lives nearby on Warren
Avenue, already has biked and walked the trail.
"It's nice to have something in the community we can use
that is not in the street where the kids can get hit," said
Taylor's mother, Michelle Evans-Reynolds, 36. "Hopefully
they will put some trees up around it."
Once a widening project is complete on Red Bank Road in
December, operators of the Cincinnati Sports Club have
agreed to allow the trail to run through their property from
La Crosse Avenue to Red Bank Road, the mayor said.
Village leaders still are working on financing for that
project, but hope to tie it into a proposed lifestyle center
at the old Ford Motor Co. transmission plant, which is being
torn down and cleaned up.
Residents who work at nearby companies along Virginia
Avenue, such as Ohio Valley Flooring, also can use the trail
to walk or bike to work.
The trail eventually will link to one planned to run from
downtown Cincinnati to downtown Cleveland. Plans for Terrace
Park's piece of the trail should be complete this summer.
The Ohio Department of Transportation built the Fairfax
trail with a $245,834 state nature grant; the village
contributed $48,932, Shannon said.
A new $23,000 sidewalk also runs along the south side of
Murray Avenue from the Cincinnati Sports Club driveway to
Virginia Avenue. The state's portion was $17,250, also from
a nature grant; the village kicked in $5,750.
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