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Photo © SANDAG

Another New Section Opened, San Diego Keeps on Rolling Along Bayshore Bikeway

Posted 04/30/12 by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy in America's Trails, Building Trails | Tagged with California, Champions, Connected Systems, Walkability and Bikeability

Ever since the first leg of the Bayshore Bikeway in San Diego Bay, Calif. was built in 1976, this much-loved pathway has been an integral part of life in this city. Looping around San Diego Bay, this pathway has been the catalyst for the growth in walking and biking in this sunny, seaside community, serving residents and commuters as well as it does tourists and Sunday strollers.

Photo © Portland Trails

Portland, Maine, Pays Tribute to a Man of His Community

Posted 04/27/12 by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy in Taking Action | Tagged with Champions, Local Organizing, Maine

Stephen Aylward was loved and respected in the city of Portland, Maine, as an educator, a man of his community, and as a passionate advocate for his local rail-trail.

Photo of the Bayshore Bikeway © Rails-to-Trails Conservancy

Greg Cox Shaped Active Transportation in California

Posted 04/25/12 by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy in Success Stories, Taking Action | Tagged with California, Champions, RTC in Action

The rail-trail movement is fortunate to have a number of active supporters in positions of municipal leadership-men and women well-placed to convert an understanding of the benefits of trails and active transportation into actual projects and programs. Greg Cox is one such champion.

Photo © BikeWalkKC

New App to Boost Biking, Walking in Kansas City, Mo.

Posted 04/23/12 by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy in Trail Use | Tagged with Kansas, Mapping and Technology

The great news is that the first-ever Kansas City 'Hack-a-Thon' is charged with creating a mobile application for citizens to find safe and convenient places to walk or bike, report road or sidewalk hazards, and provide data to local officials planning new bike lanes, trails and sidewalks.

Photo © Evansville Courier & Press

A 5,000-Mile Hike Across the Country Makes it to D.C. for Earth Day

Posted 04/18/12 by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy in Taking Action | Tagged with Champions, Private Fundraising

Among all the events taking place across the country this Sunday to mark Earth Day, there will be few as remarkable as the arrival of Kirk and Cindy Sinclair in the nation's capital.

Photo © Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel

Just for the Moms--Welcome to Stroller Rollers on the Rail-Trail

Posted 04/17/12 by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy in Health and Wellness, Trail Use | Tagged with Community Events, Encouraging Trail Use, Health and Active Living, Maine

No, it's not rush hour outside the local day care center--it's Stroller Rollers, a fitness class for new moms.

Photo © Bike Delaware

New Rail-Trail at Heart of Delaware's Push for Walk- and Bike-ability

Posted 04/14/12 by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy in Building Trails, Trail Use | Tagged with Delaware, State and Federal Programs, Statements of Support, Walkability and Bikeability

"There is a perception that (trails) are nice amenities from a recreational standpoint, but with $4-a-gallon gas I have seen a lot of people out there biking and making an economic choice," Shailen Bhatt, secretary of the Delaware Department of Transportation, told Delaware Online this week.

Photo © ACS Technologies

South Carolina Company Builds Trail for Employees

Posted 04/13/12 by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy in Building Trails, Health and Wellness | Tagged with Health and Active Living, Private Fundraising, South Carolina

Just ask the South Carolina-based company ACS Technologies, which this week opened a half-mile walking trail, built and paid for by the company, through their 14-acre Florence campus.

Report on Bike/Ped Pilot Handed to Congress

Posted 04/12/12 by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy in Policy, Trail Use | Tagged with Case Studies, Facts and FIgures, Products of Good Policy, RTC in Action, State and Federal Programs, Statements of Support

Word just came in from the Department of Transportation that the U.S. Congress will later today receive the much-anticipated report detailing the measureable impacts of the Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program (NTPP).

Photo © Hartford Courant

Connecticut Finally Celebrates the Little Bridge That Could

Posted 04/12/12 by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy in Building Trails, Success Stories | Tagged with Champions, Connecticut

Peter Marteka, the hiking and outdoor recreation columnist for the Hartford Courant in central Connecticut, wrote earlier this month about the newly built Andover covered bridge. Marteka is certainly not the only person to have wondered from time to time whether the much-anticipated bridge over what has come to be known as the 'Andover Gap' along the Hop River State Park Trail would ever be complete.

Photo © schuylkillrivertrail.com

The Fight to Save Pennsylvania's Popular Trails Fund

Posted 04/10/12 by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy in Policy, Taking Action | Tagged with Pennsylvania, Products of Good Policy, State and Federal Programs, Threats to Trail Building

Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) is this week mobilizing its thousands of members and supporters in Pennsylvania in defense of the Keystone Recreation, Park and Conservation Fund--a immensely popular and successful program that has supported trails and open space creation in that state for the past 19 years.

Photo © M.V. Jantzen

RTC's Urban Trails Work a Key Moment in Public Health Shift

Posted 04/09/12 by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy in Health and Wellness, Trail Use | Tagged with Encouraging Trail Use, Equity, Health and Active Living, RTC in Action, Urban Pathways

Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) is continuing its growing involvement in combating some of America's most pressing public health issues.

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