Mass Rail Trail News August 28 2011

[Tom Connors]

Rail Trail connection complete The Landmark 11, following the completion of a project that installed a tunnel under the road, linking two sections of the Mass. Central Rail Trail. ...

Editorials & Opinions The Landmark It closed July 6 to allow local nonprofit Wachusett Greenways to install a tunnel that connects sections of the local portion of the Mass Central Rail Trail ...

Belmont Selectmen Approve Bike Path Committee Patch.com ... of the proposed bike trail from Cambridge to Berlin in central Massachusetts. ... explained that the Belmont section of the Wayside Rail Trail bike path ...

Trail eyed to link Moseley and Maudslay parks The Daily News of Newburyport The City Council must first approve the recommendations on Monday, but projects like the Moseley-to-Maudslay Trail Connection Project and the Clipper City Rail Trail Extension Project were endorsed by the voting members from two municipal committees. ... See all stories on this topic »

CPA funds slated for nonprofit groups The Daily News of Newburyport Clipper City Rail Trail extension project, $53000, applied for by the city and the planning office to continue the development of the popular trail along the waterfront. YWCA affordable housing, $50000, applied for by the YWCA of Greater Newburyport to ... See all stories on this topic »

Reading receives state grant for rail trail work - Reading, MA ...
Reading receives state grant for rail trail work. By Joanne Senders/ correspondent. GateHouse News Service. Posted Aug 20, 2011 @ 10:20 AM ...
www.wickedlocal.com/.../Reading-receives-state-grant-for-rail...

New life for hotel plans in Amesbury
The Daily News of Newburyport
The trail would be part of a network of paths linking the town to Salisbury and Newburyport. A group known as Coastal Trails Coalition has been advocating ...

Danvers Rail Trail " From Rails To Recreation" - Danvers MA 01923
Topsfield awarded DCR Trail Grant for Rail Trail. Our neighbors to the north received a $50000 grant from DCR's Recreational Trails Program in August. ...
www.danversrailtrail.org/topsfield.htm

Clipper City Rail Trail, Newburyport
rail trail, part of a large Open Space bonded purchase. ... improvements to the rail-trail in the years following the purchase of these access rights. ...
www.communitypreservation.org/printpdf/236

Backers now turn backs on Groton plan
Nashoba Publishing
The community has debated for decades how to turn the block between Town Hall and the Nashua River Rail Trail into rows of small shops, offices and affordable housing. The initiative appeared to pick up momentum in November 2005, when the town selected ...
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Outside New England

Lehigh Gorge Rail Trail Briefing Video - YouTube Come and Bike the beautiful Lehigh Gorge State Park Rail Trail IN the majestic Pocono Mountains. This video is a simple briefing for our ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw7SErlhQ00

It's not much now, but find out how Chicago plans to transform a three-mile long elevated abandoned railway. Paris Schutz takes us for a journey down the Bloomingdale Trail. New mayor Rahm Emanuel is committed to the project within his first term.

Power company helps fund Hoover trail
Iowa City Press Citizen
According to the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, the Hoover Trail is 24 miles through timber and prairie in five sections. The surface is crushed limestone and grass on converted rail bed, and it is used for hiking, nature viewing, ...
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Hubway Bike Sharing

Councilors share broad goals on building a greener Boston
Boston Globe
Arroyo and Jackson both saw a success in the recent introduction of the Hubway bike-sharing program to the city but suggested the city needs to go further ...

Charlie on the Hubway « the snob
Am I the only person utterly perplexed by Hubway? My long-standing feelings about bicycles aside, I just don't get the point. The one bona fide use case ...
thesnob.com/2011/08/19/charlie_on_the_hubway/Hubway | The Boston Day Book
In place for just about 1 month, the bikes are part of the New Balance Hubway: a Boston bike sharing system. There are 61 stations and 600 bicycles around ...
thebostondaybook.com/2011/08/hubway/

A Low Car Diet Day of Hubway on Vimeo Week three of the Zipcar low car diet. We spend the weekend pootling about Boston on the new Hubway bikeshares. vimeo.com/28127833

Hubway vs subway « Bored in Beantown
Hubway Has anyone noticed the bikes posted up all over the city? This new program calledHubway is taking Boston by storm. New Balance created an easy and ...
boredinbeantown.wordpress.com/2011/.../hubway-vs-subway/

That standout Bixi could be from Melbourne Toronto Star The company has just delivered a cycling network to Boston, where it's called Hubway Bike Sharing, a play on subway and the city's nickname as “The Hub. ...

The Hubway on Vimeo The Boston Hubway Inaugural bike ride in Boston, MA. vimeo.com/28070460

Tried hubway today... | Facebook Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work , study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, ... www.facebook.com/Hubway/posts/253937874629635