Seems that the Sunday morning closing of Medina Ascencio for the Recreactiva Events has been changed! Not sure why.....maybe too much police required to make it work, not enough interest to make it worthwhile, political, etc.? Who knows but do not despair, it is not gone! They have simply shortened it substantially and is now located on Francisco Villa from Libremiento to the Stadium those short 5 blocks. Hope is that it will continue to extend all the way to Pitillal, but who knows if that would happen. It would be great if it did, because you can connect to the newly renovated path along the Pitillal River and then connect into Fluvial.....now that would be an awesome path.
So now meanwhile we have to deal with the new shortened route, but the good news is that the sidewalk renovations are 95% complete on the ocean side of the main road leading into downtown Puerto Vallarta. This means that you can join up from the Reactiva area all the way to the Malecon and beyond. I began riding that route and the new sidewalks on the ocean side (west) are very wide. I believe the intention of the renovation was to create a bike path along the street edge as that 4 feet of the sidewalk is smooth concrete with ramps at each block. The rest of the sidewalk is more cobblestone and has planters interspersed. As long as the walkers can understand the purpose of that portion of the sidewalk you can ride quite nicely. The ride along the Malecon allows you to go all the way to Daiquiri Dicks before things tighten up and it is not worth the fight with pedestrian traffic beyond there. But they are finishing the renovations all the way up to Rodolfo Gomez, so maybe the wider sidewalk will work? I will update you as I try it out! Ride safe!
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