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Meeting Set For February 26 On Schuylkill River Trail Development
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The next Town Square: Science for Citizens Program at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia will feature a discussion on extending the Schuylkill River Trail.
The program will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The speakers for this program are:
-- Loree D. Jones: Executive Director, Manayunk Development Corporation;
-- Christopher Leswing: Assistant Director, Planning, Lower Merion Township;
-- Sarah Clark Stuart: Schuylkill River Park Alliance;
-- Gina Snyder: Executive Director, East Falls Development Corporation; and
-- Joseph Syrnick: President, Schuylkill River Development Corporation. The Schuylkill River Trail is an extremely popular and heavily used recreational asset and commuter route. It also has the potential to be much more: a connector between a variety of Philadelphia neighborhoods and suburban neighbors, the region’s first green transportation corridor for multiple communities, a strong catalyst for economic development, and a critical access point to open space and commuting paths for underserved neighborhoods.
To be complete, the trail has critical gaps that need to be filled, and it needs to be extended southward, northward and into more neighborhoods. There are nine trail projects that, if constructed, would complete Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River Trail from Delaware County to Montgomery County.
The Forum will detail the public benefits of a completed trail and describe the planned trail segments to make the case for the Greater Philadelphia region and its elected officials to work together to make these trail segments a priority and to fund their construction.
The organizations from the non-profit, development corporation and public sectors working together to articulate the vision for a completed and connected Schuylkill River Trail in the Greater Philadelphia Region include Schuylkill River Park Alliance, Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, Schuylkill River Development Corporation, Schuylkill Project, Manayunk Development Corporation, East Falls Development Corporation, Roxborough Development Corporation, Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania Environmental Council and Bartram’s Garden.
For more information and to R.S.V.P., visit the Town Square Program webpage. |
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2/13/2009 |
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