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# Plumb Beach Bike Path Repairs Are Complete!
- URL: https://bklyner.com/plumb-beach-bike-path-repairs-complete-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2015-01-14T19:40:25.000Z
- Updated: 2015-01-20T03:04:29.000Z
- Author: Ned Berke
- Tags: bicycling, bike path, bike paths, bike routes, biking, cycling, #API-Imported

![bike-path](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/bike-path-585x380.jpg)

Plumb Beach bike path (Photo by Stephen Arthur)

It only took the city more than five years to slap down a mere 450 feet of asphalt, but[ the obliterated bike path](/index.php?s=plumb+beach+bike+path) running between Plumb Beach and the Belt Parkway is finally complete.

Tipster Stephen Arthur sent us this photo of the near-complete path back in December. According to our last e-mail followup with the Parks Department, it was 80 percent complete on December 2 and they expected to be fully wrapped up by approximately December 13\. It seems they hit that target date.

It’s been a long and frustrating saga for area cyclists since the path was destroyed by Hurricane Ida in November 2009:

![Plumb Beach Bike Path Destroyed By Hurricane Ida](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/PlumbBeach_Destruction14.jpg)

In 2010, the city pulled a fake-out, [getting the strip ready for repaving](/plumb-beach-bike-path-prepped-for-reconstruction/)… and [then calling it quits and vanishing](/photos-city-turns-its-back-on-plumb-beach-bike-path/).

It became a dangerous obstacle course. Cyclists who didn’t dismount weaved off the path, through the barrier, and cycled (sometimes against traffic) on the highway itself.

![](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/PlumbBeachBeforeEarl_021.jpg)

In 2012, [$9 million in improvements was allocated](/cyclists-beware-another-summer-without-plumb-beach-bike-path-despite-9m-in-nearby-renovations/) for long-term fixes to the beach to battle erosion, as well as for the creation of Brigham Street Park. Then-[Councilman Lew Fidler told Sheepshead Bites that some of those funds would cover the bike path repair](/brigham-park-raises-more-money-but-still-no-progress/), yet the Parks Department later said that, in fact, [none of the allocated funds would be put to the reconstruction](/cyclists-beware-another-summer-without-plumb-beach-bike-path-despite-9m-in-nearby-renovations/).

In 2013, during his last year in office,[ Fidler allocated $450,000 in additional funding in the city budget](/fidler-secures-450k-for-plumb-beach-bike-path-repairs-but-work-could-still-take-years/) specifically to shore up the bike path and lay new asphalt. [Parks told Sheepshead Bites in May 2014 ](/plumb-beach-bike-path-repaired-time-summer-cycling/)that work was finally in the pipeline – but that there was no chance it would be done in time for summer.