{"id":13106,"date":"2018-03-01T07:46:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T15:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=13106"},"modified":"2023-10-18T19:59:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T02:59:29","slug":"indystar-national-bike-greenway-moves-to-indy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2018\/03\/01\/indystar-national-bike-greenway-moves-to-indy\/","title":{"rendered":"IndyStar: National bike greenway moves to Indy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><del><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13107\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2018\/03\/01\/indystar-national-bike-greenway-moves-to-indy\/screen-shot-2018-03-01-at-10-45-26-am-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-01-at-10.45.26-AM-1.png?fit=529%2C399&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"529,399\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen Shot 2018-03-01 at 10.45.26 AM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-01-at-10.45.26-AM-1.png?fit=529%2C399&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13107\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-01-at-10.45.26-AM-1.png?resize=529%2C399\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-03-01 at 10.45.26 AM\" width=\"529\" height=\"399\" \/><\/del><\/p>\n<div id=\"module-position-Qrq2zOEyKEk\" class=\"story-asset story-metadata-asset\">\n<div class=\"article-metadata-wrap\">\n<section id=\"module-position-Qrq2zN6tk9o\" class=\"storymetadata-bucket expandable-photo-module story-expandable-photo-module\">\n<aside class=\"single-photo expandable-collapsed\">\n<p class=\"image-credit-wrap\"><span class=\"js-caption-wrapper\"><span class=\"credit\">(Photo: Matt Kryger\/IndyStar)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"module-position-Qrq2zOEhJdQ\" class=\"story-asset inline-share-tools-asset\">\n<div class=\"inline-share-tools asset-inline-share-tools asset-inline-share-tools-top\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It&#8217;s nothing like landing the Amazon headquarters. But the National Bicycle Greenway organization has moved from California to Indy.<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding: 7px;\">\n<div class=\"inline-share-tools asset-inline-share-tools asset-inline-share-tools-top\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Founder Martin Krieg dreams of a coast-to-coast biking trail &#8212; like the Monon Trail, across the country.<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding: 7px;\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It might sound far-fetched, but not to Krieg, who wheels around Indy in a yellow bicycle that resembles a soap box derby car.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">His teammate for building the\u00a0trail is Ray Irvin, who once had visions of bike trails all over Marion County. About half of those dreams have come true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">For a sober perspective on this coast-to-coast vision, I turned to former Mayor Steve Goldsmith. A fiscal conservative and former prosecutor, he&#8217;s not easily swayed by expansive dreams. Yet as mayor, he turned Irvin loose in city government to start building the city&#8217;s trails in the early 1990s. Goldsmith had doubts but saw potential for neighborliness with the trail idea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I had some anxiety about some outrageously bad crime that could ruin the whole thing,&#8221; Goldsmith said. Yet that never happened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The trails, especially the Monon, have expanded the city&#8217;s park system by many miles, leading to efforts to have a statewide system of bike trails.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s amazing how a trail segment can actually connect people\u00a0and bring them together as a community and make them more neighborly,&#8221; Goldsmith said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Goldsmith adds that a national system of interconnecting trails is achievable, now that so many cities and states have trail systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Martin Krieg thinks Indianapolis is the right spot to promote the idea, calling us the &#8220;Greenway Capital of America.&#8221; He waxes eloquent about how Indy 500 founder Carl Fisher promoted the old Lincoln highway as a way to drive a car cross country, more than 100 years ago. Krieg fell in love with the city&#8217;s cultural trails on a ride last summer. If a national interstate system could be built in the 1960s and 1970s, a cross-country bike trail shouldn&#8217;t be out of the question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><em>Pulliam is associate editor of The Star. Follow him on twitter at RBPulliam@twitter.com. Email him at Russell.Pulliam@indystar.com.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><span class=\"asset-metabar-time asset-metabar-item nobyline\">Published 10:17 a.m. ET Feb. 23, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<section id=\"module-position-Qrq2zKys0RQ\" class=\"storytopbar-bucket story-byline-module story-story-byline-module\"><\/section>\n<section id=\"module-position-Qrq2zKzK6uE\" class=\"storytopbar-bucket piano-module story-piano-module\"><\/section>\n<section id=\"module-position-Qrq2zKzMOn4\" class=\"storytopbar-bucket bounce-exchange-module story-bounce-exchange-module\"><\/section>\n<section id=\"module-position-Qrq2zKyt7-w\" class=\"storytopbar-bucket google-survey-module story-google-survey-module\"><\/section>\n<div class=\"asset-double-wide double-wide p402_premium\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/opinion\/2018\/02\/23\/pulliam-national-bike-greenway-moves-indy\/355601002<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo: Matt Kryger\/IndyStar) It&#8217;s nothing like landing the Amazon headquarters. But the National Bicycle Greenway organization has moved from California&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2018\/03\/01\/indystar-national-bike-greenway-moves-to-indy\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,1,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indianapolis","category-uncategorized","category-velomobile"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-3po","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16674,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2022\/07\/12\/map-of-greenway-capitol-of-the-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":13106,"position":0},"title":"Map of Greenway Capitol of the World","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"July 12, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Here is the National Bicycle Greenway map for Indianapolis Central. 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