Orange County Register

The city will extend a bike path by merging it with another.

East Orange’s Santiago Creek south trail will merge with Hart Park’s,  in West Orange.

To do this, a path will be carved off of Hart Park’s existing trail, extending it through Cannon Street, where Santiago’s south trail is.

The 1.7-mile project will run through Collins Avenue, Cannon and Hewes Street and Santiago Canyon Road.

Ideally, trails and paths are to connect neighborhoods to schools, parks, areas of work and shopping centers.

The city will fund the construction of the Santiago and Hart Park project with about $5 million from the county with money from Proposition 1B, and about $2.3 million from Orange County Parks fund.

“This project is a cooperative effort by both the city and county to construct a class I off-road (trail),” said city spokesman Paul Sitkoff.

“The estimate cost of the trail covers things such as engineering, environmental studies, any right-of-way acquisition and construction,”  he said.

This includes preparing the land, grading, materials, and any other improvements that are required. Much of the trail will be on Orange County Water District property.

Bikeways are rated three ways:

• Class I bike paths are completely separated from streets.
• Class II bike lanes are one-way, striped lanes within streets.
• Class III bike routes are similar, except they only have signs and are not striped.

– Martin Syjuco and Kim Galbraith

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