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San Jose's Annual Trail Count Sees Usage Increase 10 percent

Posted 11/09/09 by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy in Trail Use | Tagged with California, Case Studies, Facts and FIgures, Mode Shift, Trail Communities

For the past three years, the Department of Parks, Recreation & Neighborhood Services of the city of San Jose, Calif., has conducted an extensive user count and survey of its major trails and greenways. This year's count, which was conducted on September 23, has resulted in some encouraging statistics.

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Chicago's Englewood Neighborhood Aims for its Slice of Green with New ERA Trail

Posted 10/19/09 by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy in Building Trails | Tagged with Illinois, Trail Communities, Urban Pathways

Running through the Englewood neighborhood, which was recently described by the Chicago Sun-Times as "impoverished and desperate," the New ERA Trail would run on a nearly two-mile inactive elevated corridor currently owned by Norfolk Southern.