Donations Let Richmond, Calif., Expand Bay Trail

Sep. 20–The next phase of the Bay Trail in Richmond will be under design soon thanks to a donation by the Auto Warehousing Company and a grant from the Association of Bay Area Governments.

The Port of Richmond can now gather a team of trail-planning professionals that will include civil engineers and landscape architects. The new stretch of trail will allow access to Kaiser Shipyard 3 in Point Potrero Marine Terminal and the USS Red Oak Victory, docked near the end of Dornan Drive.

The cost of the design phase is estimated at $148,000. The trail will include interpretive historical exhibits. Groundbreaking is tentatively scheduled for mid-2006.

Other Bay Trail construction projects underway are the $500,000 Richmond Parkway Bay Trail Gap, which will close the one-mile gap between Richmond’s southern and northern shoreline parks, and the $388,000 Ferry Point Tunnel to Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline project, which will widen the narrow elevated sidewalk through the Ferry Point Tunnel and improve lighting.

Richmond already has about 20 miles of Bay Trail in place, which is more than any other city on the 500-mile hiking and biking route. Once completed, the trail will encircle most of the San Francisco Bay.

In Richmond about 20 miles of the trail remains to be completed and the Trails for Richmond Action Committee estimates an additional 2.7 miles will be ready for use before the end of the year.

For more information about Bay Trail projects in Richmond, go to http://ci.richmond.ca.us/trac/

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