By Larry in July, 2005
"VA Beach has a number of really nice paved bike trails, mostly along side major roads (including Dam Neck, General Booth, and Shore Drive) and along the beach front (parallel to the concrete boardwalk).
These are labeled ""asphalt shared use,"" and provide a smooth, safe and scenic ride, with a reasonable number of road crossings and other detours. Obviously, you need to be particularly careful of pedestrian and rental bicycle traffic ""in season"" along the beachfront.
Unfortunately, signage is minimal on most of these (I got rather confused trying to follow the ""park connector bikeway"" out of Mt. Trashmore Park, since there where no signs directing me toward Princess Anne Park).
Finally, it would be really great if the city government could allocate some funds to create similar ""shared use"" bikeway paths on the short stretches between the various longer ""shared use"" paths(riding on those ""widened sidewalks"" near the very commercially congested intersections can be very dangerous).
These little improvements would turn a good set of paths into a truly great riding experience."