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Major new bike trail plan unveiled
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Major new bike trail plan unveiled
The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, along with Mayor Nutter and Camden mayor Dana L. Redd are unveiling today a major new bike trail initiative. (Disclosure: I am a dues-paying member of the BGCP)
“The Circuit,” as the plan has been dubbed, will eventually comprise hundreds of miles of inter-connected bike trails, including several hundred miles of brand-new trails. The idea, says BCGP executive director Alex Doty, is that “wherever you live in greater Philadelphia, the Delaware Valley, Camden – is that if you walk out your door, you could look north, south, east, or west and know you can ride all day on trail.”
The "Complete the Circuit Coalition" has a website up and on it you'll find an awesome map of existing and proposed trails in the region.
This vision is an extension of an idea that's at the top of the BCGP agenda: connectivity. It was the basis of the Pine and Spruce bike lanes (they connect the rivers); it's the basis of the connection between those lanes and the South Street bridge, which itself will soon connect to the Scuylkill River Trail — which itself will extend to Bartram's Garden. Connectivity, is what we're saying here.
Indeed, Doty compares this plan with the Scuylkill River Trail — which hopes to go unbroken from Center City Philadelphia to the Appalachian mountains near Pottsville. It's a project that's been years in the making, and which remains incomplete — but which draws more than a million visitors a year anyway.
The goal is a network of no less than 750 miles of bike trails. Currently, 250 miles are completed with another 50 miles in progress. That leaves 450 to go — which means this project will take a while — perhaps ten years, Doty says.
It will also require money, of which there is some and much to be raised. The William Penn Foundation has contributed substantial money toward the “Regional Trails Program,” administered by the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission.
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