Completed Placerville to Folsom - couple questions. Is the suggested segment along Tong Road accessible to the public? It's a recommended "neighborhood connector" according to the Western El Dorado County Bike Map and appears to see decent traffic according to Strava heatmap, but the parcel map for El Dorado County doesn't show it as a right-of-way, and the old (probably out of date!) California Cross State Bicycle Route Study says that the roadway has been gated off and was under investigation as to whether it was open to the public or not. Signage at the end of Old Bass Lake road seems to suggest the road is private (street view with that-which-shall-not-be-named), but I have often seen these signs up along a road where the land around the road is private but the road itself is a public ROW.
Also, there is no physical crossing to turn EB from Silva Valley Pkwy onto Tong Rd - one would be required to either dismount in the middle of the road and walk, or bunny hop up over the median crossing four lanes of traffic. There are also no crosswalks to circumnavigate the barrier anywhere around. I have added a crossing here as a footway with crossing_ref=none but this seems dubious to me and difficult to tag appropriately. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
