You are welcome! I'm not glad that I missed capturing video the first time I was there but, I am glad I came back and found that back road there. I was glad that I got to go to the Richloam General Store too.
Thanks for this informative video and the narrative. It certainly reaffirms my decision to avoid this portion of the C2C by cutting through the Green Swamp (on a gravel bike) when I did it E-W just a couple of days after you filmed this. It'll be great when they close this gap, but until then, no thanks. Be safe!
If you got a Gravel bike then by all means go the other way. If I had a gravel bike, I may have gone the logger road way but, I didn't waste my time because I knew my tires would have gotten stuck there. I had thought about asking my friend to loan me his gravel bike for the logger dirt road way but, I got tired of waiting and I just went for it on SR-50. I don't have any problem with that portion near the the train tracks. If traffic got too heavy, it's only a short distance to walk on the side there. The portion where the asphalt is for the 3 mile before Linden will be opening I think this Summer but, the rest has parts where they won't be looked at until June of 2026. If it's not this Summer that it's opening then it will be the next.
SR-50 roadwork and bike trail is coming along well. I was there just a few weeks ago. I didn't see that animal-crossing tunnel last time I was there, cool.
I saw it both times. On my C2C ride and when I drove back there. The first time I heard about Animal Crossings like that was when they built the trail on Ridge Road that's North of Jay B Starkey Park. I think that one on Ridge Rd goes underneath and it doesn't cross the bike path. In my video here, I was actually surprise to see the construction going on on the other side of SR-50. I thought that Florida Scenic Trail was an existing trail already. I saw it on the Google Maps.
It looks like they recently put that sod down near that tunnel too. It's still brown color and we've had rain so, if it was put down months ago, it should have been green but, it was brown. I just noticed that when I looked at the video again.
I know you have ridden next to SR-50 a couple of times and on the C2C. It must be exciting for you to see the progress being made on all parts of the trail including the SR-50 part.
@@Phonamana I've done SR-50 two previous time all away and now I did partly till I turned into Richloam WMA. Exiting to see that they're adding a bike lane next to it.
@@FollowThomas Oh, did they not have a bike lane next to SR-50 before when you rode it for your first time in your first C2C Video? I thought you were crazy the first time that I saw you ride that but, I thought you had a bike lane. There's no way I would have rode that without a bike lane there. That would be crazy! I felt pretty safe on it and because I use a flashing bright red tail light on my bike, actually two them and I wore a red shirt that I felt safer than I would have without the flashers or red shirt. It did surprise me when I heard the first car to go over the double yellow line to give me extra space and bwap sound coming from their tires. There is like indentions near the double yellow line and the white painted bike lane line that if a tire crosses over it makes the bwap sound. I had found somebody's flasher light so, I had an extra one. It was a nice bright one. It had a mode on it to flash blue and red but, I think that is illegal to use with red and blue flashing lights so, I just stuck to the red flashing light mode on that light.
@@howardmontaque8147 thanks for pointintg that out. I didn't even see that. The car behind it got close to the line too. It's a good thing that I got off the road then to look back from a safe spot and go when the traffic was clear. That bike lane at that point was pretty narrow and that's why I got off the road. I could hear the traffic coming.
@@Phonamana Definitely sketchy. We took the gravel route though Richlome. I am wondering what the trail addition will be like when its done. I dont play with automobiles.
@@howardmontaque8147 this fdot plan says the portion of the South Sumter Asphalt Trail that goes up to close to Tarrytown will be completed by Spring 2024 which we are in Spring 2024 now so, that should be opened soon. www.cflroads.com/project/435859-3 I assume the portion to Burwell Rd will be open soon too but, the train track part and that ramp part to go over the tracks will be opened in the Spring of 2025 next year according to this. www.fdottampabay.com/project/546/442835-1-52-01 I am not one to ride in the road and I prefer a sidewalk if there is one. There wasn't that much traffic using SR-50 when I went riding to Groveland after 11:00 am. When I woke at the Motel, I could hear the traffic on SR-50 and it was pretty bad but, when I was capturing video, SR-50 was pretty calm. For me just knowing when the times of the traffic will be calmer, helps. I didn't intentionally go riding in this video around 3 pm. I had to capture video on the Good Neighbor trail that I missed when I first captured video there on my actual C2C Ride so, I was capturing video there first and the I came here and that's why I was riding around there so late after 3 pm which I thought was going to be worse than it seemed when I there.
I checked the view point on Google maps and that side road near the tracks wasn't even there in March of 2023. I am glad it's there now. Here's the map. www.google.com/maps/@28.5074464,-82.1580645,3a,55.4y,160.59h,87.04t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sf-mhWkhZPclwOtyuuLDRSQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
I thought I put the update here. I haven't been back to that are near the tracks but, I saw a RU-vid video that FDOT has added girder beams over the tracks. I am not sure that we can use the side trail there anymore with the construction going on there. Here's the video in the link. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uyHuhMjVxmU.htmlsi=6g17fjNHn8CH2dT-
