No ramp from the Cherry Avenue Extension Bike Path to  McCormick Road

Apparently bicyclists are not to be encouraged to make such a connection on over with the new bike path. Probably the DOT decided it was not advisable to having pedestrians or bicyclists cross at that point, being a 45 MPH road. Still this is unfortunate, as I was looking forward to using this new bike path to connect over to McCormick Road and then over to the Pine Hollow Arboretum.

On the other hand, I find the connection from Cherry Avenue to the main Albany County Rail Trail to be very useful both for all points along the Rail Trail from Cherry Avenue and for commuting. The bike trail works well with the traffic lights, with the green left turn arrow sensing your bike when you approach without fail, and the green arrow giving you a a safe, easy to turn on the bike trail. At the same time, leaving the bike trail to Cherry Avenue South is easy, as you pull up to the stop sign, you can see when the light is green for going through, and merge into traffic seemlessly and safely. While occasionally you have to watch for right turning traffic, this direction is very uncommon, as most traffic that would be turning right, instead takes NY 85 at the previous round about rather then turning right there.