Bike Walk Connecticut
  • Home
  • About
    • About
    • Board
    • Sponsors
    • Contact
  • News
  • Advocacy
    • Current Advocacy Work
    • Past Advocacy Work
    • Complete Streets >
      • Complete Streets Announcement
      • Public Survey
  • Education
    • Share the Road
    • STR Quiz
    • Walk Audits
    • NACTO Bikeway Design Guide Workshop
  • Events
    • 2022 Discover Olmsted's CT Bicycle Tour
    • Annual Dinner
    • Bike Walk Summit 2015
    • NACTO Bikeway Design Guide Workshop
  • Membership
    • Donate
    • Login
    • Volunteer! >
      • Board Candidates
      • Bike Education Instructors
  • Connecticut Bicycle/Pedestrian Groups
  • Resources
    • Ped & Cyclist Traffic Deaths
    • Resources
    • Complete Streets Resources
    • CT Bike Ped Advisory Board
  • Registration

Merritt Parkway Trail Meeting is Tonight!

9/16/2014

 
Tonight is the big night! The final public meeting with ConnDOT on the Merritt Parkway trail feasibility study is tonight at 7pm in Greenwich (Town Hall Meeting Room, Greenwich Town Hall, 101 Field Point Rd).

Please consider joining the Merritt Parkway Trail Alliance prior to the meeting at 5:30pm for a get together at Cosi (129 West Putnam Ave, Greenwich). The group will discus strategy, letters of support & next steps. Please email molly@greenway.org if you plan to be there. 

If you haven't already submitted a letter of support for the trail to DOT, please consider doing so and forward the template to your friends, family & colleagues (http://www.greenway.org/?attachment_id=4618).  (See more below.)

Let's keep the momentum going. Hope to see you tonight!


Letter of Support Information
Please support the Merritt Parkway Trail. October 3rd is the deadline for comments. If ConnDOT does not have enough people saying they favor, in concept only at this point, a multi-use trail that connects the 8 towns along the Merritt Parkway, this valuable project will die on the vine. 

There are a couple of points that people seem to be confused about:
  1. The trail would run along the Merritt Parkway (on average, about 75 feet from the roadway), buffered by landscaping and fencing. It will not be right next to the cars.
  2. Supporting the trail at this point means asking ConnDOT to go ahead with the next stage of planning, which includes answering the significant questions we all have about funding, timelines, environmental impact and total cost.
  3. There is no financial cost or obligation to take this next step. Support now does not mean "please go ahead and build it."
If you think a connecting trail across Fairfield County would be a good idea then we urge you to send a letter or an email to ConnDOT. We have created a form that will let you email them easily, or print it out and send it by mail: 

Here is the URL to the form to support the trail:
http://bit.ly/parkwaytrail

And this is a link to read more about the trail itself.
http://www.merrittparkwaytrail.org/

Comments are closed.
    Bike Walk Connecticut
    NEWS

    Send us your bike walk related news and time permitting, we'll do our best to post it.


    Topics

    All
    Advocacy
    Annual Dinner
    Bike Education
    Bike Friendly Communities
    Bike Share
    Bike To School Day
    Bike To Work
    B P A B
    Complete Streets
    Cyclist Safety
    Data Collection
    Discover CT Ride Series
    DOT
    Education
    Elections
    Events
    Federal Funding
    Grants
    In The News
    Legislation
    Media Releases
    Members
    N A C T O
    National Bike Summit
    Natl Bike Challenge
    Newsletter
    Pedestrian Safety
    Public Meetings
    Share The Road
    State Funding
    Summit
    TOD
    Traffic Skills 101
    Trails
    Video
    Volunteer
    Walking
    Walk To School Day

Picture
(c) 2012-2016   Bike Walk Connecticut | PO Box 270149, West Hartford, CT 06127 | bikewalkct@bikewalkct.org

Photo used under Creative Commons from Roebot
  • Home
  • About
    • About
    • Board
    • Sponsors
    • Contact
  • News
  • Advocacy
    • Current Advocacy Work
    • Past Advocacy Work
    • Complete Streets >
      • Complete Streets Announcement
      • Public Survey
  • Education
    • Share the Road
    • STR Quiz
    • Walk Audits
    • NACTO Bikeway Design Guide Workshop
  • Events
    • 2022 Discover Olmsted's CT Bicycle Tour
    • Annual Dinner
    • Bike Walk Summit 2015
    • NACTO Bikeway Design Guide Workshop
  • Membership
    • Donate
    • Login
    • Volunteer! >
      • Board Candidates
      • Bike Education Instructors
  • Connecticut Bicycle/Pedestrian Groups
  • Resources
    • Ped & Cyclist Traffic Deaths
    • Resources
    • Complete Streets Resources
    • CT Bike Ped Advisory Board
  • Registration