Runners, cyclists get their own trails at new lakefront park

Cyclists, pedestrians and runners now have their own lanes—for a stretch that equals the length of nearly three football fields—along the lakefront.

The two new paths—one for cyclists and a second for runners and pedestrians—were built into a new park along the lake at Fullerton Avenue. The new park, which added about 6 acres of green space to the city, was part of a $31.5 million project that involved filling in the lake and installing a concrete seawall to prevent erosion and damage from storms, according to the Chicago Department of Transportation, which is managing the project.

The running and walking path is an unpaved 900-foot-long crushed stone trail located south of Fullerton Avenue just east of the Lake Shore Drive ramps, while the Lakefront Trail sits closer to the lake and is paved with asphalt, according to Mike Claffey, spokesman for the city's transportation department.

The rest of the lakefront will continue to have a multiuse path.

The test of the story, from redeye
http://www.redeyechicago.com/news/redeye-lakefront-trail-path-runne...