RPM's draft report on bike suitability/Bike routes is out. It is linked on the right sidebar under Resources. Please give it a look and post your comments. A version that will show routes in Google Earth is on the way. You should be able to better identify specific roads then. I will post that when available.
Note, the file is stored in Dropbox. Firefox, Dropbox, and pdf files are not playing well of late.
Internet Explorer is working fine. For Firefox you may need to go into Tools, Options, Applications and set Adobe Acrobat Reader files to always save.
Bruce
This blog is alive. and March 2011 update
My first idea of how to use this blog made it appear nothing was happening. The idea was to keep the routes from scrolling down as new posts were added. This has been rectified by placing links to the routes on the right panel. Now we can comment and it will show the latest post correctly.
As of mid March, TN is still awaiting the results of RPM consultants current survey of bicycling suitability for state roads. Good news that Kentucky now has a Bike Ped coordinator who is interested in working with Tennessee to establish routes.
As of mid March, TN is still awaiting the results of RPM consultants current survey of bicycling suitability for state roads. Good news that Kentucky now has a Bike Ped coordinator who is interested in working with Tennessee to establish routes.
Tennessee Music Heritage Trail
Phil Pugliese and others discussed creating a Tennessee Musical Heritage Trail while at the National Bike summit. On his return Phil set up a phone conference with several interested parties and this project appears to have legs. The first step is to identify the physical sites to include on the route with a weighting of the ones deemed most important. Jessica Wilson is working on that. When we get that list we will begin work to determine a route to include as many points as possible, look at spurs, and start working on local partners.
We we recently featured on Ginny Sullivan's Adventure Cycling Blog.
Stay Tuned.
We we recently featured on Ginny Sullivan's Adventure Cycling Blog.
Stay Tuned.
Things to do now
Much of this is on hold while our role with RPM consultants is better defined, here are some things we can still work on to good purpose.
1. Evaluate TN NS 4a for cycling suitability. Especially all South of I-840 needs to be checked as new rumbles have been applied in that area since my last visit.
2. Tweak TN NS 4a thought Nashville.
3. Establish contacts for route coordination with MS, VA, KY, GA.
4. Look at and amend as appropriate the other routes in your area. Especially need suggestions for route from Nashville to Memphis north of US 70.
1. Evaluate TN NS 4a for cycling suitability. Especially all South of I-840 needs to be checked as new rumbles have been applied in that area since my last visit.
2. Tweak TN NS 4a thought Nashville.
3. Establish contacts for route coordination with MS, VA, KY, GA.
4. Look at and amend as appropriate the other routes in your area. Especially need suggestions for route from Nashville to Memphis north of US 70.
Using side bar links.
Many of the links on the right are to files stored in Dropbox. You can view or downloadthe file. If it is an exec file you will need to save and run the file.
Route over view
Overall Plan
1. Two East West Routes. a. Knoxville to Memphis via mostly SR 62 following an approximation of the Historic Avery Trace to Nashville, then US 70 toward Memphis but detouring South to connect to US 64 at Waynesboro
b. US 64 from Murphy NC to Memphis except for a detour where US 64 is routed on I-24 for a while.
2. Six North South routes.
a. Follow the Great Valley Route From Bristol to Chattanooga. This would connect with the Northern EW route in Knoxville to give connectivity to Virginia, NC, and GA
b. Celina to Winchester where it would connect with the Ken Kifer route to Alabama
c. Franklin, KY, through Nashville to Ardmore AL
d.Adventure Cycling Great Rivers Route, Land Between the Lakes to Natchez Trace parkway, to AL
e. Adventure Cycling Underground RR, roughly parallels Tennessee River to the Trace in the Land Between the Lakes.
f. Mississippi River Trail
I wouldn't argue with another NS Route between Memphis and Savannah and altering the northern EW route to more closely follow US 70.. I just don't know enough of that region to make a suggestion.
TN NS 4a Franklin KY to Ardmore AL
http://ridewithgps.com/routes/2457351
Note: route updated and changed to Ride With GPS on 9/8/2013 after submission to AASHTO for designation as USBR23
Note: route updated and changed to Ride With GPS on 9/8/2013 after submission to AASHTO for designation as USBR23
TN NS 4b ACA Great Rivers Route
OK, so I didn't do my homework. ACA Actually has two existing routes though TN, The Underground RR and this one. This is mostly the Natchez Trace and a connector to the URR in TN but deserves noting.
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