{"id":5800,"date":"2012-08-05T15:31:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T23:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=5800"},"modified":"2012-08-05T15:31:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T23:31:15","slug":"the-moab-el-the-elevated-bikeway-the-before-part-of-the-inevitable-before-after-pics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/05\/the-moab-el-the-elevated-bikeway-the-before-part-of-the-inevitable-before-after-pics\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MOAB EL&#8230;The Elevated Bikeway      (The BEFORE part of the inevitable &#8216;Before &#038; After&#8217; pics)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These images depict the route of the soon-to-be-constructed Colorado Riverways Bike Path as it looks today.\u00a0 For more on the multi-million dollar project, <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.moabsunnews.com\/news\/article_dbbbd838-db61-11e1-ab64-0019bb30f31a.html\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to read the Moab Sun News story.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding environmental impacts, County Councilman Chris Baird says that there were, &#8220;many EAs, in fact, as it was federal money the environmental scrutiny was even more strict than usual. The trail goes across state, federal, private, sovereign, and county land. In fact, a great deal of time and energy was put into routing the trail around one cottonwood tree.&#8221; (You can see the tree he mentions in the last photo)<\/p>\n<p>Check back in a couple years to see how much these views have changed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/05\/the-moab-el-the-elevated-bikeway-the-before-part-of-the-inevitable-before-after-pics\/bikeway1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5801\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5801\" title=\"bikeway1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bikeway1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bikeway1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bikeway1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Looking downstream. (Above &amp; below)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/05\/the-moab-el-the-elevated-bikeway-the-before-part-of-the-inevitable-before-after-pics\/bikeway2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5802\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5802\" title=\"bikeway2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bikeway2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bikeway2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bikeway2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Looking upstream to Negro Bill Canyon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/05\/the-moab-el-the-elevated-bikeway-the-before-part-of-the-inevitable-before-after-pics\/bikeway3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5803\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5803\" title=\"bikeway3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bikeway3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bikeway3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bikeway3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Leaning Tree<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/05\/the-moab-el-the-elevated-bikeway-the-before-part-of-the-inevitable-before-after-pics\/bikeway5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5804\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5804\" title=\"bikeway5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bikeway5-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bikeway5-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bikeway5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>To paraphrase our friend Abbey&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>&#8220;Can you tell me where Moab is?&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>&#8220;No&#8230;But I can tell you where it was.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ THE AUG\/SEPT ISSUE CLICK THE COVER:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5811\" title=\"cov-au12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cov-au121-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cov-au121-216x300.jpg 216w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cov-au121.jpg 392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These images depict the route of the soon-to-be-constructed Colorado Riverways Bike Path as it looks today.\u00a0 For more on the multi-million dollar project, click here to read the Moab Sun News story. Regarding environmental impacts, County Councilman Chris Baird says that there were, &#8220;many EAs, in fact, as it was federal money the environmental scrutiny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5800"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5816,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800\/revisions\/5816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}