Merritt Parkway Trail Meeting is Tonight!

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/