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Area requests state assistance on pedestrian, trail projects Date published: 10/31/2008
By KELLY HANNON Local governments and a land trust are asking the state to help pay for new trail and pedestrian improvements in the Fredericksburg area. The Fredericksburg Area Metropolitan Planning Organization has endorsed $2.8 million in Transportation Enhancement Grant applications, which are reviewed by the Virginia Department of Transportation. The projects include: A Stafford County application for $1 million to improve bicycle and pedestrian access in the courthouse area. The Civil War Preservation Trust has requested $900,000 to create walking and biking areas with historical interpretation at Spotsylvania Courthouse, Chancellorsville and Slaughter Pen Farm off Tidewater Trail. Spotsylvania County has applied for $796,000 to pay for the second phase of the Historic Courthouse Streetscape Project. Courthouse Road would be widened to add curb and gutter, a brick-paved sidewalk, streetlights and crosswalks. The project would connect county offices, court buildings, a fire station, the historic jail, Spotsylvania Museum and Confederate Cemetery. A Fredericksburg application for $175,000 to expand the Cowan Boulevard Connector Trail. The money would build a bicycle and pedestrian facility connecting the existing trail on Cowan Boulevard with destinations on the other side of U.S. 1 such as: the FREDericksburg Regional Transit station, College Heights neighborhood and the University of Mary Washington. Each locality has to match 20 percent of any federal enhancement grant money received. The Commonwealth Transportation Board will announce tentative grant recipients in late spring, and board members will vote on the final recipients in June, said Tina Bundy, VDOT spokeswoman. Kelly Hannon: 540/374-5436
Date published: 10/31/2008
is the one by the Civil War Preservation Trust - to put REAL
trails into the Battlefield.
The other projects are basically plain ordinary
infrastructure projects.. concrete, asphalt, etc
masquerading as "trails".
For instance, go check out the existing Cowan Blvd trail
especially where it crosses underneath Cowan Blvd.
It's not maintained.. has no trailhead markers...etc.
so.. instead of requesting funds to improve/upgrade the
existing trail... the request is for a pedestrian crossing of a
road.
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