Dream of Cynwyd Heritage Trail moves closer to becoming reality

By Cheryl Allison
Main Line Media News

Working with other volunteers over the past two years, Friends of the Cynwyd Heritage Trail member Kathy Burns says the “biggest question” she hears is, “When?”

They want to know, “When will the trail be finished?”

The day that question can be answered with a good, firm “Soon” moved much closer on the horizon with a vote by Lower Merion Township commissioners May 5.

Meeting as the Parks and Recreation Committee that evening, commissioners voted unanimously to accept a consultant’s design for the early-awaited trail, and to authorize completion of construction documents so that the project can go out for bids. The action is to be finalized at a regular board meeting May 20.

If those bids are favorable, work is expected to begin this fall. Less than a year from now, Phase I of the project should produce a “clean, safe two-mile-long trail from Cynwyd Station to Rock Hill Road and Belmont Avenue” as Assistant Director of Building and Planning Chris Leswing described it. What’s more, the project can be done within its stated budget, a very large majority of which will come from grant funding.

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