Board raises equity and e-bike concerns as plan flags uneven access to trails
The draft plan finds about 27 miles of city-maintained trails and identifies around 2,700 residents beyond a 10-minute walk; members and staff also flagged rising impacts from larger, faster e-bikes that current code treats as bicycles.
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Board members and staff pressed the consultant on trail accounting, equity of access and a growing management problem with powerful e-bikes. The consultant said the draft counts 27 miles of hard-surface trails maintained by the city (other sources list up to ~53 miles in Golden depending on maintenance responsibility) and estimated about 2,700 residents live beyond a 10-minute walk to a park, though everyone is within a one-mile drive time.
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