Rail Trail Newsletter #93 - January 2025

• Here's a concise update about what happened along the MCRT this year, in a nice video format. Click here to see the video.

• Here' a nice video about the Northern Rail Trail in NH. This is the longest rail trail project in NH and one of the more notable due to its heavily volunteer-based aspect.

• Our complete list of important and positive events on the MCRT. 

• Draw One Bridge will not have pedestrian path that was promised as mitigation from Big Dig By Sean Flannelly, Cambridge Day.

• Link here to the 1995 plan that promised the bike-ped path alongside the Draw Bridge. Been waiting for only 30 years now.

• State Rep. Michelle Ciccolo, co-chair of the Trails Caucus in the Mass Statehouse, announced the formation of the TRAILS ACCESS WORKING GROUP

• Fall rail trail improvements in NH are complete, more to come in 2025

• MassDOT Celebrates Mass Being Ranked 2nd in the Nation for Bicycling

• 45.2 new miles of Greenway Trail Constructed across New York

• Bourne - Rail-With-Trail Alternative Proposed For Rail Trail Phase 2 By Jamie Perkins 11/21/24, The Enterprise

• Rail Trail gets $125,000 grant from Gov. Hochul  - Judith O'Hara Balfe, Millerton News

• An update from the town’s Lynnfield-Wakefield Rail Trail team provided a positive outlook

• Trump Taps Business Associate Of Megadonor Timothy Mellon For Railroad Role 

• Bike lanes save lives, so why are you still complaining?

• Dread your commute? These folks suggest trying a trail instead by Kate Kampner Community News Service, VT

• ​Under construction since 2021, this greenway, named for the champion boxer