Bike riders in Orland Park, IL, a suburb near Chicago, have an
expanded bike trail thanks to Arcosa’s lightweight aggregate, supplied by the company’s Brooklyn, Indiana plant.
Orland Park is a growing area committed to improving recreational facilities for its citizens. A new 1.5-mile bike trail, connecting two existing trails, was constructed through challenging terrain.
“The site of the trail is in a swampy, marshy area bordering a large drainage ditch and a pond,” says Kevin Cavanaugh, Arcosa Lightweight’s former technical sales & marketing representative who consulted on the project. “There was also a steep slope running alongside the trail to contend with.”
“The road parallel to the bike path had been widened roughly a decade ago. Back then, developers found expanded shale lightweight aggregate (LWA) to be the perfect solution for similar challenging site conditions, and as it turns out, lightweight would once again come into play,” says Cavanaugh.
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