The Lafitte Greenway is a trail for pedestrians and bicycles located in New Orleans, Louisiana, extending from Louis Armstrong Park to Bayou St. John and beyond. Opened in 2015, it is the latest reconfiguration of a historic transportation corridor that has been in use for over two centuries.
The Lafitte Greenway extends 2.6 miles from the Basin Street trailhead (located near the Municipal Auditorium in Armstrong Park) to the Alexander Street trailhead. Passing through the Tremé, Lafitte, and Mid-City, the trail essentially connects neighborhoods from the French Quarter to Lakeview. [1]
Landscaping along the greenway includes native plantings and bioswales [2] and has been the subject of proposals for innovative stormwater management. [3]
The City of New Orleans has also adopted a revitalization plan, designed to attract investment along the corridor. [4]
The trail officially opened 6 November, 2015. [5] Construction of Design Workshop's award-winning [6] plan was funded largely through Disaster Community Development Block Grants (CDBG-D) allocated after Hurricane Katrina, with the initial phase costing $9.1 million. [7]
This area has served as a transportation corridor for New Orleans since at least 1794.The land presently occupied by the Greenway was previously used by the Southern Railway (U.S.) and before that by the Carondelet Canal. Before the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal was built in 1954, this route was used to enable passenger trains of the Southern Railway (now Norfolk Southern Railway) to access the Southern Railway Terminal (New Orleans), which was located on Basin Street at Canal. Ideas for repurposing the land began to percolate in the 1970s from civil rights activists such as Rudy Lombard and in the work of architect Clifton James. [8]
The city sold a large portion of the land to the Louisiana Institute of Film Technology in early 2006. However, plans for a grand studio never materialized, and in 2010 the Trust for Public Land brokered a deal which returned the land to public ownership. [9]
Starting in 2005, activists organized a series of annual hikes to raise awareness of the project, with hundreds of participants hiking each year over rough terrain on the site of the proposed trail. [10] [11]
The City of New Orleans plans to extend the greenway another half-mile into the Lakeview neighborhood to Canal Boulevard. This stretch of trail would run alongside an active rail-line which services a local brickyard. Negotiations with Norfolk Southern are ongoing. [12]
Tremé is a neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana. "Tremé" is often rendered as Treme, and the neighborhood is sometimes called by its more formal French name, Faubourg Tremé; it is listed in the New Orleans City Planning Districts as Tremé / Lafitte, from when including the Lafitte Projects.
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The Monon Trail is a rail trail located entirely within the state of Indiana. The Monon Railroad was a popular railroad line connecting the cities of Chicago and Indianapolis, with stops at major settlements along its route. After the decline of railroad travel and the sale of the company in 1987, the portion of the line between Indianapolis and Delphi, Indiana, was abandoned.
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The Carondelet Canal, also known as the Old Basin Canal, was a canal in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., operating from 1794 into the 1920s – nearly 135 years.
The Orleans Canal is a drainage canal in New Orleans, Louisiana. The canal, along with the 17th Street Canal and the London Avenue Canal, form the New Orleans Outfall Canals. The current version of the canal is about 2 km long, running along the up-river side of City Park, through the Lakeview and Lakeshore neighborhood, and into Lake Pontchartrain. It is part of the system used to pump rain water out of the streets of the city into the Lake. The Canal has also been known as the Orleans Avenue Canal, the Orleans Outfall Canal, the Orleans Tail Race, and early on, the Girod Canal.
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Bayou St. John is a bayou within the city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
In 1980 the New Orleans City Planning Commission divided the city into 13 planning districts and 72 distinct neighborhoods. See Orleans Parish neighborhood map
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The Genesee Valley Greenway is a rail trail in western New York's Genesee River valley.
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Claiborne Avenue is a major thoroughfare in New Orleans, Louisiana. It runs the length of the city, about 9.5 miles (15.3 km), beginning at the Jefferson Parish line and ending at the St. Bernard Parish line; the street continues under different names in both directions. It is called South Claiborne Avenue upriver from Canal Street and North Claiborne Avenue from Canal to St. Bernard Parish.
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Norman C. Francis Parkway, formerly named Jefferson Davis Parkway or Jeff Davis Parkway, is a street in New Orleans, Louisiana. It runs southwest from the head of Bayou St. John in the Mid-City neighborhood to Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard in the Gert Town neighborhood. Like most streets in New Orleans, the segment of the parkway to the north east of Canal Street is named "North" Norman C. Francis Parkway while the segment to the southwest is denoted as "South". The parkway is wide with a grassy median except for where it crosses over the Pontchartrain Expressway.
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