St. Louis Adds “Crown Jewel” to Bike/Ped Network

The Great Rivers Greenway District, a public organization developing a unique 600-mile web of 45 interconnected greenways, parks, and trails, known as The River Ring, announced the completion of more than 150 miles of bike trails and on-street lanes. The most recent includes 77 miles of dedicated on-street bicycle routes and shared traffic lanes and the McKinley Bridge Bikeway and Trestle. This makes St. Louis the third city in the world, after the High Line in New York City and the Promenade Plantée in Paris, to convert a historic elevated steel trestle into a linear urban recreation amenity.