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Old Posted Jun 8, 2012, 2:55 AM
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I thought we had a thread on this, but I couldn't find it. HEB just donated $250,000 to the Trail Foundation to help fund improvements to the trail including the boardwalk along the south shore of the lake. This is supposed to start construction in August.



PDF plan with renderings and route
http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/boardwalk...ail_jpesc5.pdf

The Trail Foundation's website
http://thetrailfoundation.org/

http://www.statesman.com/opinion/boa...be-769704.html
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Boardwalk on hike-and-bike trail would be crucial link for Austin

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Published: 5:25 p.m. Friday, June 25, 2010

Only a mile separates east from west on the hike-and-bike trail around Lady Bird Lake. The trail ends abruptly at the eastern edge of the American-Statesman's property on Riverside Drive and picks up again on the other side of Interstate 35.

In reality, however, that gap is much wider than that. It is a separation of two parts of the city that can be measured in years, culture, history and a reluctance — perhaps subconscious — to join west and east.

There has been plenty of talk of spanning the gap, but in typical Austin fashion, the talk becomes the raison d'être. We get so enamored of the conversation that the reason for it gets lost in the verbiage.
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Old Posted Jun 8, 2012, 3:12 AM
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http://www.statesman.com/news/local/...al-747738.html
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$16 million boardwalk leads Austin bond proposal

City releases draft list of $84.8 million in transportation projects for possible November election.

By Ben Wear and Sarah Coppola

AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Updated: 12:13 a.m. Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Published: 11:08 p.m. Monday, June 14, 2010

Austin voters would be asked to approve $16 million for a boardwalk along Lady Bird Lake's south shore, closing a gap in the hike-and-bike trail, under the draft version of an $84.8 million transportation bond proposal for the November election.

That $84.8 million list, released Monday and still subject to changes by the Austin City Council in coming weeks, would be evenly split between road projects, with about $42.6 million , and pedestrian, bicycle and trail improvements, at $42.2 million .

The City Council, should it decide to hold a bond vote this year, likely would vote in early August to call the referendum and outline what it would be asking voters to authorize.
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http://www.statesman.com/news/local/...e-2395970.html
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H-E-B pledges $250,000 to hike-and-bike trail improvements

By Tara Merrigan

AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Updated: 8:51 p.m. Thursday, June 7, 2012
Published: 8:46 p.m. Thursday, June 7, 2012

The H-E-B supermarket chain pledged $250,000 to the Trail Foundation's $5 million "Campaign for the Trail" on Thursday, putting the foundation's fundraising total just over $4 million.

H-E-B's contribution will go toward the two-pronged vision for the improvement of the hike-and-bike trail along Lady Bird Lake: $3 million will be given to the city to help pay for a boardwalk that will complete the trail's circuit around the lake, and the remaining money will be placed in the foundation's endowment for the upkeep and beautification of the trail.

The boardwalk will close a 1.1 mile stretch of the trail that currently leads joggers and bikers away from the lake's shores and onto the sidewalks of East Riverside Drive.
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Old Posted Jun 8, 2012, 3:43 AM
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The Trail Foundation



More renderings and the planned route

Segment 1


Segment 2


Segment 3


Construction plan showing rest areas


Boardwalk from I-35


Lakeshore Entry at Lakeshore Park


Blunn Intersection


Woodland DG Trail


10 mile map of the trail


PDF Plan with more
http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/boardwalk...ail_jpesc5.pdf
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What happens when it floods?
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What happens when it floods?
haha good question!
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What happens when it floods?
Bastrop will get a nice boardwalk Actually, I've wondered the same thing.
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The boardwalk will be able to handle when the river rises
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Super cool renderings. Also love the show/hide buttons, how do you do that? Hope cyclist give pedestrians a break along these stretches, people are going to have a tendency to wander.
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Old Posted Jun 8, 2012, 9:38 PM
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The river doesn't really flood. I mean the water level will rise some, but remember this is a constant level LAKE controlled by dams. So it's not as though it'll be washed away by a torrent.

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Also love the show/hide buttons, how do you do that? Hope cyclist give pedestrians a break along these stretches, people are going to have a tendency to wander.
The show/hide buttons are just a BBcode that the forum uses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode

The show/hide code is meant to allow the poster to post something in their post while keeping it hidden until the reader wishes to see it. It was intended as a spoiler hide for say movie plots or whatever. In the old version of the forum program it was a bit different and when you would do the code for a line, it would simply black out that text until you highlighted it. But with this version it has other uses since you can use it to hide or simplify content in posts. It works well for hosted images because it saves you bandwidth for those images. Instead of those images loading every time the thread loads, they only load if the reader clicks on the show button. So you're not using up bandwidth until the reader actually wants to view the images.

The code is [spoiler]Content here[/spoiler ] If you move that last bracket so that it's flush with the r in spoiler, you get the show/hide buttons.

As for the wanders on the boardwalk, I'm sure I'll be one of them. They are planning several rest areas and viewing spots. And it'll probably be wider along the more scenic areas.
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What happens when it floods?
If Lady Bird Lake floods that means the lakes upstream like Travis are most likely full and the flood gates had to be opened up and we can all celebrate and thank the rain gods.
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Lake Austin is a constant level lake, so town lake gets the overflow. It's more constant-ish level lake.
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Any idea why that first rendering is so old looking? Buildings are under construction that have been around for years.
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Any idea why that first rendering is so old looking? Buildings are under construction that have been around for years.
It is funny, but it's just that when they did the rendering for the boardwalk those buildings were under construction. They probably just had someone go out and take a photo of the skyline at the time and they made the rendering from that.

Wasn't this on the bond election in 2008? Or was it 2010?
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it is funny, but it's just that when they did the rendering for the boardwalk those buildings were under construction. They probably just had someone go out and take a photo of the skyline at the time and they made the rendering from that.

Wasn't this on the bond election in 2008? Or was it 2010?
2010.
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This article talks a little more about what to expect with how it'll look.

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/...d-2404080.html
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Lake boardwalk contract up for approval; construction could start in August

By Ben Wear

Published: 8:58 p.m. Monday, June 25, 2012

With shovels finally ready, the Austin City Council will consider a $21.7 million contract for the Lady Bird Lake boardwalk project Thursday.

And an associated measure would reallocate $5.8 million to the project to cover the higher-than-expected construction cost — the city had estimated $17.4 million when Austin voters approved money for the project in a 2010 bond election, $4.3 million less than the lowest bid — as well as another $1.5 million for ongoing city costs associated with the project. That $5.8 million will come from money, also approved as part of the 2010 bond election, intended to reconstruct West Third Street downtown, but the city said it can replace that with unspent transportation bonds approved by voters in 2000.

The nonprofit Trail Foundation is contributing $3 million to the boardwalk.
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It should start in August and be done by February 2014.

Council approves $21.7 million boardwalk contract
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yipee, isnt that the same year waller is supposed to be done??
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yipee, isnt that the same year waller is supposed to be done??
Yes.
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http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/ne...-campaign.html
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Donation completes $5M downtown trail campaign

Austin Business Journal by Vicky Garza, Staff Writer
Date: Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 12:40pm CDT

Vicky Garza
Staff Writer- Austin Business Journal

A donation from the St. David’s Foundation completes The Trail Foundation’s $5 million fundraising effort to complete and beautify the Ann and Roy Butler Hike and Bike Trail around Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin.

The $500,000 gift announced today in a commemorative ceremony will be utilized specifically for the boardwalk trail completion project.
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