Mandeville bike path gets overlay

By Chad Ruiz
Published on Monday, March 3, 2008 9:20 AM CST

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Like a river of black snaking between gargantuan trees, the newly asphalted bike path along Mandeville's Lakefront is nearly complete.

Part of the first phase of a street renovation project that began in 2006, asphalt overlay was poured onto the widened cement bike paths giving pedestrians 8 feet of walkway to negotiate along.

Visitors who frequent the bike path along the Lakefront in Mandeville may now be able to do so without getting their feet wet thanks to a thick layer of asphalt now covering most of the walkway. Workers pictured are Jim Ricciardone, Guy Shurden and Vincent Solbach. (Staff Photo by Chad Ruiz)

Charles Nickel, inspector for the engineering company contracted for the street projects, said the path needs to be asphalted because of deterioration and low spots in the walkway.

Nickel said the overlaying should have started many months ago, but the planning of the Master Lakefront Landscaping design delayed the project.

"Partly, I think it was held up because we didn't know if the improvements they are planning to do to the Lakefront would affect the bike path," he said. "It would have probably been done as much as six months ago."

The work on the pathway began last week, and Nickel expects it to be completed by the end of next week.

Nickel said most of the pathway will be asphalted, and once work is completed some sections of the sidewalk bordering the seawall will also be widened and repaved to match some of the bike path.

"I think the progress is going quite well," Nickel said. "The contractor is trying to get it done as quick as he can because time is money, but with the wet winter, it's been slowing him down some."

He also said phase one of the 2006 street project is nearly complete with phase two already begun and estimated to be finished six months from now.

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