“It’s bananas the way we have been able to secure public funding.”
Philip Hiatt Haigh
Executive Director
The Loop Dallas
.…on opening the Hi Line Connector of Dallas’ 50-mile hike-and-bike trail The Loop, via the Dallas Morning News.
Dallas is inching, walking, jogging, and pedaling its way toward completion of The Loop, a 50-mile, $135 million hike-and-bike trail that aims to connect people, neighborhoods, green spaces, and much more via a sweeping loop from White Rock Lake to the northeast to Oak Cliff and downtown Dallas and down south through the Trinity Forest before circling back northward again.
And now a key part of The Loop called the Hi Line Connector—a one-mile stretch that takes people underneath I-35 and links the Katy Trail with the Trinity Strand Trails—has opened to the public.
Photo of part of the completed Hi Line Connector, part of Dallas’ 50-mile hike-and-bike trail The Loop. Note the mural on the right greeting people in motion on the trail. [Photo: The Loop Dallas]
“The public entities are so excited about these projects because they are aimed at so many different issues like pedestrian-friendly infrastructure, health, the environment,” Hiatt Haigh told the Dallas Morning News’ Sharon Grigsby.
For more details on the connector and about how the final gaps in The Loop will be filled—from a bridge over the Trinity River to the last seven miles of the Trinity Spine Trail—read the DMN article here.
Rendering of the Hi Line Connector, part of Dallas’ 50-mile hike-and-bike trail The Loop. [Image: The Loop Dallas]
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Rendering of the Hi Line Connector, part of Dallas’ 50-mile hike-and-bike trail The Loop. [Image: The Loop Dallas]
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