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Category Archives: Utility Corridors
LIPA moving forward, permitting trails along transmission line right-of-ways
A long-proposed bike and jogging path running along the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) transmission lines in Suffolk County is finally moving forward. On July 30, County Executive Bellone signed a 25-year agreement reached between the county legislature and LIPA on July … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Cycling Advocacy, Health, Trails, Utility Corridors
Tagged LIPA, Long Island, Power line trails, power lines, Suffolk County, Utility corridors
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Spring Cleaning on Kingston’s Trails as part of their Annual Clean Sweep
The Kingston Land Trust Rail Trail Committee organizes cleanup of the Kingston Link Trail as part of Kingston Clean Sweep presented by the Friends of Historic Kingston and Kingston Parks and Recreation Department on Saturday, April 21st 2012 at 9:00am. Volunteers are … Continue reading
Posted in Rail Trail, Trails, Utility Corridors
Tagged Clean Sweep, D&H, HTHP, kingston, national trails day, O&W, trails, volunteers
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The Onondaga Creekwalk: Blossoming with the spring
It works. That’s the highest praise for any project in downtown Syracuse, and it certainly applies to the new Onondaga Creekwalk, a 2.6-mile greenway from Armory Square to Onondaga Lake. During Thursday’s lunch hour, dozens of walkers and joggers came … Continue reading
Posted in Erie Canalway Trail, Health, Parks, Trails, Utility Corridors
Tagged Creekwalk, national grid, onandaga, Syracuse
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Energy, Rail, & Broadband from NYC to Montreal. Trails, too?
Read more about the Regional Plan Association’s concept to align infrastructure (both physical and digital superhighways). The NY outdoors blog asks, why not trails, too?
BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN PROGRAMS UNDER ATTACK! Several are on the cutting room floor of a new Senate Bill
The following is directly from The Newsletter of National Association of Recreation Resource Planners: The full Senate Environmental and Public Works (EPW) Committee unanimously approved its bipartisan two-year highway reauthorization bill (S. 1813) today by an 18-0 vote. The bill, … Continue reading
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Tagged advocacy, CMAQ, consolodation, cuts, Enhancements, funding, MAP-21, senate, transit, Transportation
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Utica Erie Canalway Trail “Closing the Gaps” roundtable
In mid-May, the Office of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, in collaboration with Parks & Trails New York, the NYS Canal Corporation and the Herkimer-Oneida County Transportation Study (HOCTS), convened the fourth in a series of “Closing the Gaps” roundtables in Utica. … Continue reading
Posted in Canalway Trail, Erie Canalway Trail, Rail Trail, Trails, Utility Corridors
Tagged close the gaps, hocts, utica
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Plans for Long Island Motor Parkway Trail a reality at last
It has taken many years and a considerable amount of advocacy on the part of Long Island historians and trail advocates, but at last Nassau County has released a plan to establish the Long Island Motor Parkway Trail as a … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Open Space, Rail Trail, Trails, Utility Corridors
Tagged healthy trails, HTHP, LIMP, long island motor parkway, nassau county, NYSDOT
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Winter Walk first step in Erie-Cattaraugus Rail Trail development Frigid temperatures and blowing snow did not deter more than 100 area residents from turning out for the first trail event for the Erie Cattaraugus Rail Trail (ECRT) south of Buffalo. Sponsored … Continue reading
Posted in Health, OPRHP, Rail Banking, Rail Trail, Trails, Utility Corridors
Tagged Erie Cattaraugus Rail Trail, HTHP ECRT, Pop Warner Trail
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LIPA agrees to re-open negotiations for Suffolk County trail
Trail development is tough work. No one ever said it was easy, but there are some hurdles that are so frustratingly difficult to overcome that they can stop a project dead in its tracks even when there’s overwhelming agreement on … Continue reading
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OPRHP publishes Final Statewide Trails Plan
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) is pleased to announce the completion of the Final Statewide Trails Plan/FGEIS. The Plan provides existing information on trails in the state and lays out the overall vision, … Continue reading