The Power of a Path

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Recently a meeting was held in my neighborhood of Riverdale, New York, about where to put a bike path. Not just any bike path: this will be the local link in a bicycle route that is envisioned to link Albany, New York (also on the Hudson River, some 140 miles north) with Battery Park, at the southern tip of Manhattan. The project is known as the Hudson River Greenway, and it has been in the works since the early 1990s.

I take a personal interest in the Greenway because I like to ride my bike f...