The City of Austin has officially opened a new section of the hike and bike trail along Lady Bird Lake. The quarter-mile stretch of trail connects what officials said was the last remaining gap in the 10-mile lakeside loop. | MoseBuchele
A quarter-mile stretch of the hike and bike trail along Lady Bird Lake officially opened Wednesday. It was the last section to connect the lakeside loop.
Before Wednesday, the trail along the lake’s northeast shore turned away from the water near the property line of the now-dismantled Holly Power Plant. It sent joggers and bikers briefly through the park and neighborhood there, to cross Holly Street and rejoin the trail on the other side of the old plant.
“It was back in 1971 that Lady Bird Johnson convened a group of committed citizens to begin planning this trail,” Anderson said at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. “Today, the trail is finally fully completeThe new section of trail also provides public access to about 9 acres of new East Austin parkland along the lake. The land had previously belonged to Austin Energy, which managed the old power plant.
“It's been a dream of mine to open this [land] ever since we started protesting the power plant here decades ago,” Eastside resident and outgoing City Council Member Pio Renteria said.You know, that plant first leaked a lot of PCBs into the lake,” he said at the ribbon cutting."Then the plant exploded once; they had a fire going. So it really upset the neighborhood.
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