Bike Trail May Come to Aquidneck Island
Carl Knoch, of the Rail Trail Conservancy led a public forum on the Shoreline Bikeway at CCRI Thursday night.
Dozens of Aquidneck Island residents and community representatives filled the CCRI auditorium, along with members of the Aquidneck Island Planning Commission and Bike Newport, to participate in a forum with Carl Knoch, of the Rails to Trails Conservancy. Thursday night's forum was the second in a series of events to educate and pique the interest of Aquidneck Islanders for the project. The Shoreline Bikeway is a proposed 10-mile recreational trail that would run alongside the existing Old Colony railway throughout Aquidneck Island. Newport is at a tipping point in the process, Knoch said, referring to the support given to the project by the AIPC, Bike Newport and a growing number of local residents. “We are further along than you think,” …
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mike westman
8:06 am on Monday, December 10, 2012
Bill....same goes for all those exoskeletons that people ride around with.....getting in the way of people walking and using non-carbon vehicles that also provide healthy exercise. Actually.....maybe those bike paths and bikers should be given a tax credit for minimizing the effects of people on the environment and a tax should be place on non-commercial uses of those carbon belching exoskeltons… more ›