Cycling in Madrid shared-use paths. The most important shared-use path is Madrid Río, a park located in the banks of the Manzanares River and opened in 2011. Car-shared lanes and streets (in Spanish: ciclocalle o ciclovía) are very frecuent in Madrid. They are marked with the drawing of a bicycle on the pavement, and they are speed limited to 30 km/h. In Madrid, there are many bike sidewalk paths (in Spanish: acera-bici). Some are located in O'Donnell Street or Serrano Street. Greenways (in Spanish: pista-bici) are independent cycle routes, for example the Royal Route GR-124. BiciMAD is a public service of bicycle-sharing. It
Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway by residents and landowners since its inception. After the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the engineering policy on the Mississippi River changed from building levees high enough to withstand the greatest recorded flood to include floodways. The Flood Control Act of 1928 authorized the United States Army Corps of Engineers to construct the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway in Missouri and the Morganza Spillway and Bonnet Carre Spillway in Louisiana. Even before its authorization, the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway was the subject of controversy. In June 1927, President Calvin Coolidge instructed the Mississippi River Commission and the Corps of Engineers to