New bike paths for region, courtesy of U.S. stimulus

By Paul Nussbaum
Inquirer Staff Writer

Ten bike and pedestrian paths will be built in Philadelphia and South Jersey with $23 million in federal stimulus funds, officials announced yesterday.

The trails will fill some of the gaps in a planned 108-mile network that eventually will link Philadelphia, Reading, Chester, New Hope, Cherry Hill, and Trenton.

"This will transform the network we have, and make it accessible to a much larger and more diverse segment of our population," said Sarah Clark Stuart, campaign director of the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, which helped prepare the proposal approved by the U.S. Department of Transportation.

The three paths in Camden County and seven in Philadelphia will be constructed in the next two years, said Stephen Buckley, Philadelphia's deputy commissioner of transportation.

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