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Citizen-Times: RAD too busy to wait for a greenway, advocates say

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From Asheville Citizen-Times writer Joel Burgess ...

It's a good plan, residents and other supporters of the River Arts District say — build a greenway for walkers and bicyclists from the southern end of Riverside Drive north to the outskirts of the city and beyond.

But with thousands of people now pouring into the district for events such as studio strolls and many of them spilling into Riverside's narrow lanes, the greenway can't happen soon enough.

Rather than wait for the permanent path whose construction is set to begin in 2013, residents, artists and others are pushing for a temporary walkway.
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