Schuylkill River Trail gets a facelift along Kelly Drive

January 13, 2012
By Vanessa Martinez for NewsWorks

The soft charcoal hue of the asphalt along the Schuylkill River Trail gleams a little brighter between the Falls Bridge and Ridge Avenue now that improvements to the trail have been completed. The new path is significantly wider and repaved.

It has increased in width from 4 to 5 feet, to 6 to 10 feet, according to Rob Armstrong, Philadelphia Parks and Recreation preservation and capital projects manager. "It is a major improvement because in some portions, bikes couldn't pass each other," he said.

Philadelphia Parks and Recreation began working on the quarter of a mile stretch in mid-March 2011 and finished in December.


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