How Will Lower Merion Budget for Trail Bridge?

More money is needed to connect Bala Cynwyd hikers and bikers to Manayunk.

By Eric Campbell for BrynMawr-GladwynePatch
March 8, 2012

Lower Merion is poised to pursue a $500,000 state grant to help refurbish the Manayunk Bridge as a trans-Schuylkill connector for bicyclists and pedestrians, but township officials have yet to figure out how to pony up their own $500,000 to match it, as the grant application requires.

The obsolete railroad bridge that angles across the river between Bala Cynwyd and Manayunk, just east of the Belmont Avenue vehicle span, would connect the months-old Cynwyd Heritage Trail to trails on the Philadelphia side as well as Manayunk’s Main Street, if an estimated $2.5 million renovation is completed.

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