Silver Lake neighbors have apparently been heard: design of the final segment of the reservoir pedestrian path–the section along Tesla Avenue–is being reworked to accommodate objections that the original plan for boardwalk-style structure was too high, too narrow and too inaccessible to be safe and attractive to walkers and joggers around the reservoirs.
“Our latest thinking is centered on making the path as low as possible and having easy ingress-egress to it so no one feels ‘trapped’ ,” Marty Adams, DWP’s director of water operations at the Silver Lake and Ivanhoe reservoirs, explained to The Silver Lake Reservoirs Conservancy, the neighborhood citizens group that has worked to enhance public access to the reservoir property for the last 20 years.
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