Teaming up for better Philly waterfronts
Hayden Mitman
Star Staff
Throughout the city, there are a number of efforts under way to help clean and green various areas along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers.
PennFuture, an environmental advocacy group, thinks it's time for the groups behind those efforts to band together.
Next week, PennFuture will host a meeting intended to help focus environmental efforts on the city's two riverfronts into a combined push for change that would potentially affect the rivers' edges citywide.
The new initiative will form the Coalition for Philadelphia's Riverfronts, an association that aims to create a greenway along both rivers which could be used as a walking and biking trail and would connect the two rivers by extending through the entire city.
While no route for a continuous trail has been determined yet, there are a number of projects in the works - including the Schuylkill River Trail and a trail that would link urban areas up and down the East Coast - that could be connected and expanded through this project.
"This is a long-term objective," said Rachel Vassar, Philadelphia outreach coordinator for PennFuture. "But, we think it's important that there be a connected greenway."
Read complete article at http://www.philly.com/community/pa/philadelphia/star/63141702.html
Star Staff
Throughout the city, there are a number of efforts under way to help clean and green various areas along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers.
PennFuture, an environmental advocacy group, thinks it's time for the groups behind those efforts to band together.
Next week, PennFuture will host a meeting intended to help focus environmental efforts on the city's two riverfronts into a combined push for change that would potentially affect the rivers' edges citywide.
The new initiative will form the Coalition for Philadelphia's Riverfronts, an association that aims to create a greenway along both rivers which could be used as a walking and biking trail and would connect the two rivers by extending through the entire city.
While no route for a continuous trail has been determined yet, there are a number of projects in the works - including the Schuylkill River Trail and a trail that would link urban areas up and down the East Coast - that could be connected and expanded through this project.
"This is a long-term objective," said Rachel Vassar, Philadelphia outreach coordinator for PennFuture. "But, we think it's important that there be a connected greenway."
Read complete article at http://www.philly.com/community/pa/philadelphia/star/63141702.html
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