The Tahoe-Pyramid Bikeway (see mention in “Road conditions,” right) will be able to complete another large portion of the 116-mile route by spring 2013, the bikeway’s organization of the same name announced last week. Construction on the Fleisch bridge over Fleisch dam, the first part of the bridge to be worked on in California, started in December after a brief delay, and is estimated to cost $440,000. The organization has received $370,000 through grants and donations.
“The 200-foot-long bridge will have new cabling for support, new wooden planks and safety railing,” said a statement from Tahoe-Pyramid Bikeway. “The cables are suspended from towers at both ends of the bridge and those structures also will be replaced. The towers will be supported by new anchors of concrete.”
A three-mile path from Crystal Peak Park to Quilici Ranch Road in west Verdi is next on the agenda.