Rail Trail Newsletter December 20, 2017 #15

• One of the things I love most about land trusts is their can-do spirit.

• Golden Spike 2018 0 JULY 27 and 28, 2018 at Northampton Union Station

• Selectmen Approve Belmont Community Path Route

• Letter to the Editor about the Tunnel being open now

• And here it is, HOT OFF THE PRESS from the Governor's office this morning

• ‘I’m tired of riding my bike everyday and constantly feeling like I’m going to die’

• Rail Trail: Luxury or necessity?

• 25th Anniversary for the Minuteman Rail Trail

• Looking To Bridge Another Trail Gap

• SO, BMW WANTS TO BUILD NETWORKS OF ELEVATED CYCLING PATHS

• The Bay Area’s Expanding Bike Share Is Part Of Ford’s Transition From Cars To “Mobility”

 

Rail Trail Newsletter November 18, 2017 #14

• State is providing $1.7 million for Construction of the Wayland, Weston section of the MCRT

• GLX constructors picked for Green Line design-build contract 

• Grassroots Effort Leads To Rebirth Of The Air Line Railroad In Portland

• Holliston OKs CPA funds to cover budget gap for 8 Arch Bridge repairs

• Bellingham bike ride promotes rail trail

• 2017 City Election Candidate Survey Responses

• Court Rules in Favor of the West River Rail Trail

• Ulster County lawmakers approve removal of tracks to create Ashokan trail

• Parks Trails New York's New Report About The Economic Impact Of Investing In State Parks

 

Rail Trail Newsletter November 6 2017 #13

• SAVE THE DATE: GOLDEN SPIKE 2018

• NEWS from the Community Path Extaka CPX

• Rockland, Abington receive grant to pave Hanover Branch Rail

• Chicopee bike path nearly ready for construction

• Next step on East Side Greenway plan

• Public Invited to Discuss Bike Path Routes In Plainville 

• Southington’s rail-trail is closing the gap with Plainville

• In N.H.'s North Country, ATV Tourism Revs Up A Culture Clash

• At 92, Carroll crosses the bike path off her bucket list

• Support the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative at the Annual Greenway + Industry Event

• Rail trail connections coming to Salisbury

• Initiative to close trail gaps in MetroWest

• Benefits of Greenways in the Triangle Region of North Carolina

 

Rail Trail Newsletter October 10, 2017 #12

• Some bits of good news from Somerville and Cambridge

• Mass DCR awards $50,000 to extend the Mass Central Rail Trail in the Leeds section of Northampton

• Dissecting the proposed rail trail in Weston, MA

• Now live on one of my websites, an ARCHIVE for you.

• Swampscott, MA Advances Its Rail Trail Plans

• STANTEC lands $240K contract for Swampscott Rail Trail

• Local residents gather, share memories of the evolution of Keene NH's rail trails

• Bicyclist says she didn’t pull over for Arlington, MA police as a bit of a protest

• Communities receive grants for recreational trails

• Here's TWO stories about the Regional Plan Association plan to connect 1,650 miles of trails in the tri-state area

• BPAC holds first meeting in Narragansett, RI

• EPA Announces Superfund Cleanup Completion and Rail Trail Opening in Southington, Conn.

• Charter Oak Greenway in CT Nearing Completion, Bridges On The Way. [Another column by Peter Marteka of the Hartford Courant; one of the region's best writers about trail development.--CDP]

• Carmel, Indiana, Shows Suburbs How to Go Big on Biking

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Newsletter #11 September 20, 2017

• Input wanted on new Weston rail trail

• Northampton Underpass update

• THE RAIL TRAIL IS COMING TO WESTON

• North Adams, MA Bike Path Plans Draw Complaints, Praise

• Swampscott, MA Advances Its Rail Trail Plans

• A love affair, on two wheels

• Forgotten River Will Get a Walkway

• Greenways attract Nashville home buyers and developers

• Great TED Talk on the Walkable City

• If You Build It, the Dutch Will Pedal

• ATLANTA BELTLINE RESTORES ECONOMY, NATURE & CONNECTIVITY: IS AFFORDABLE HOUSING NEXT?

• Bicyclists celebrate East Coast Greenway in NH

• Abandoned Railroads Become Vibrant Paths But Some Communities in EMass Voice Concerns

• Here's NY's REALLY, REALLY, BIG PLAN

• Turn over a new leaf: Chase that autumn foliage on foot

• How the Malden River can rise from a polluted past

 

Newsletter #10 September 7, 2017

• How One Massachusetts Downtown Bounced Back From The Crippling Shadow Of A Mall And Walmart

  [pssst, the Rail Trail passes through the downtown--CDP]

• Unused bridges, and former rail corridors find new life as urban trails

• The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS Recently Gave Me an Award for My Work on Rail Trails

• Seven Stunning Sights From RTC’s New England Mapping Trips

• National Grid Owned Former Trolley Corridor In Eastern NY Is Now Becoming A Rail Trail

• The Plan For The State To Pay For Long-Term Maintenance Of The "Electric Trail"; Gets Positive Review From Locals

• Eagle Scout Project Brings Stories to the Rail Trail in Holliston

• Rail Trail Planners Urge NH DOT To Buy Newly Abandoned Line at Concord, NH

• Swampscott Puts Out a RFQ for Engineering Firms Interested in Moving the Rail Trail Project Forward

 

Newsletter #9 August 10, 2017

• Mass DOT's Bike-Ped Advisory Board recently met in Northampton at DOT District 2 HQ

• Did you know that AMC now has an experienced trail building crew available for hire?

• Proposed Tiverton Bike Path

• Editorial: Railing about the trail in Plainville and Southington, CT

• Biking across Lake Champlain on an old railroad causeway

• Therapy on Wheels: Biking in Western Mass

• The ARRT Now Sees Kayaks, Too

• More New Yorkers Opting for Life in the Bike Lane

• TWO NH Communities Appeal for Federal Leeway on Trails. They Want to Allow ATVS on Their Rail Trails.

 

Newsletter #8 July 15, 2017

• Interesting Op-Ed by Larry Tucker

• Eversource makes case for Sudbury-Hudson power line

• The Friends of Northampton Trails and Greenways have hired a part-time staffer!

• A couple of videos from Edison, NJ that talk about the rail trail there.  A part of the East Coast Greenway.

• Bridge Rehab starts on future Columbia Greenway river crossing

• Residents voice opposition to Plainville-Southington, CT trail alignment

• In other news in CT along the Farmington corridor

• Looking for some great INFOGRAPHICS to help get the trail built in your town?

• Ground Breaking for Bruce Freeman Rail Trail Extension in Concord, MA

• Governor Attends Event Celebrating Opening of New Cape Cod Rail Trail Bridge

• Taxes on Bikes?

• The biggest infrastructure project in the US is a 3,000-mile bike path

 

Newsletter #7 June 24, 2017

• STATUS UPDATE: MCRT route through Somerville is not fully locked-down

• Mass Central Rail Trail tunnel project on schedule

• My Memories of David Burwell, his Mother and the Inspiring House in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

• Assabet River Rail Trail progress report

• Neponset Greenway Trail Open for Use

• Canadian tourism officials would like the East Coast Greenway to connect  into the Canadian Maritime provinces.

• Ashuwillticook Rail Trail is now 12.2 miles

• Clashing Visions for Old Rail Bed (Just Don’t Call It the High Line of Queens)

• 40 Rail Trails on YouTube

• STATE OF NH SUED BY ADJACENTS OVER TRAIL PLAN

• How the Cape Cod Rail Trail Came To Be.

• Rail-Trails Celebrated as ‘Vibrant Sign of Renewal’

• New York Resident Makes His Mark In PBS Show

• Trail Loved by the Economic Development Corporation in Putnam County in eastern New York

• Adirondacks are Anomaly in ‘Rails-to-Trails’ Doc

• The plan to Connect Two Major Bike Paths at the Albany Waterfront

• A Guide To CT's Trails, Long And Short

 

Newsletter #6 May 2, 2017

• Things are moving ahead on Waltham's section of the MCRT

• MCRT Route Alternatives through Belmont

• Update on the MCRT's Northampton tunnel

• Rail trail will be ‘an asset’ for Concord

• Lake Placid Officials Hold Informational Meeting On Draft Adirondack Rail Trail Conceptual Plan

• Rail Trails in NY on PBS

• LETTER: Time for Swampscott rail trail has come, writes Select Board

• Rail trail reality: 'It's perception'

• IFS, ANDS, AND ABUTTERS MAY FORCE TRAIL OFF GRID

• SWAMPSCOTT RAIL TRAIL ON TRACK

• And then there was this from Attorney Michael Pill

• Dover citizens approve lease for rail trail at Dover Town Meeting.

• Connecticut NEWS:  Movement to complete state’s trails gaining momentum

• Please come to  the  Public Information Meeting on May 22, 2017 from 6:00-8:00 PM at the Plainville, CT Public Library Auditorium

• An archive of these newsletters is now set up

 

Newsletter #5 May 17, 2017    

• To Advance the MCRT, Massachusetts DCR endorses  Sudbury-Hudson Power Line Project 

• Three Routes Presented As Finalists for Belmont’s Community Path on the MCRT 

• MASS DCR --An Agency in Need of a Vision.

• Lamoille Valley Rail Trail in VT Launches a $3M Capital Campaign

• LETTER: Yes to rail trail (in Dover, MA)

• Bike or Run Along These 3 Former Railroad Routes (in New England.)

• Bridges, rail corridors find new life as urban trails

• Rail Trail Article Approved By One Vote! Town Meeting says YES! by 342-341 vote.

• Harlem Valley Rail Trail extension planned for 2018

 

Newsletter #4 April 28, 2017

• MCRT in the news 

• Was There an Earlier Bike Lane, than Davis, CA?

• Swampscott is still debating the worthiness of a trail that connects several schools

• Clipper City Rail Trail seeking mural artists

• Trail Extensions being planned in Manchester, NH 

• Voices from the Valley,  Interviews Gary Briere

• Plainville, CT the primary gap in the longest interstate trail in New England. Here's an update.

• News from Dover, MA

• Study on Naugatuck Greenway notes potential economic impact

• New Option Floated for Rail Trail Extension on Cape Cod

 

Newsletter #3 April 14, 2017

• Go West, Young Rider! Mass Central Rail Trail's Westward Progress

• Do Homebuyers Value Recreational Trails?

• The Burke-Gilman Trail

• The Back Story for the Shining Sea Trail that is Still Reverberating Today

• 50 Years Ago the First Bike Lane in U.S. Opened

• Rail-Trail Effect: On the Success of the Minuteman and Other Bike Paths 

• In the Last Newsletter, the Story of Schell Bridge in Northfield, MA  was the Most Popular One. But Here is the Bigger Story!

• Construction on Greenway Trail in Seymour, Connecticut - Due to Begin on April 1 

• Building More Bike Paths Right Into Downtown

 

Newsletter #2 March 24, 2017 

• Wayland section will be under construction in 2017

• NY, a State "Hungry for Trails" and Savors Gov. Cuomo's 750 Mile Plan!

• Farmington Canal as a Green Space

• New Book about the Farmington Canal is Now Available! 

• First came transit-oriented communities, now it’s ‘trail-oriented’ development.

• MassDOT plans network of bike paths to keep pace with demandThe Quick Story of Schell Bridge in Northfield, MA and How it is Spawning Copy-Cat Bike-Path Bridges in Keene, NH.

• TOURING THE NEIGHBORHOODS NEAR THE RAIL TRAILS IN THE CONN. RIVER VALLEY NEAR NORTHAMPTON, MA.

 

Newsletter #1 February 15, 2017 

• Mass Central Rail Trail Tunnel Takes Shape 

• Greater Walkway Experience

• Railways and Trailways Co-exist 

• Leominister-to-Fitchburg Rail Trail Nearly Underway 

• Seabrook to Request Funding for Section of Rail Trail 

• Travel by Train and Bring Your Bike Along! 

• Feasibility Study for Dedham Heritage Rail Trail Released 

• Video #8 Northampton/Hadley on the Mass Central Rail Trail. Largely about the Bridge and environs.