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The East Coast Greenway
Alliance has been working hard up and down the east coast to help local
greenway organizations link to one another in order to create a giant non-stop
greenway for walker, runners, cyclists and outdoor enthusiasts from Maine to
Florida.
Fourteen years running,
the greenway has the “allure of a long-distance route but the pragmatic value
of a local facility,” states the Alliance’s Web site, www.greenway.org. It will
contribute to “increasing transportation options, improving air quality,
reducing roadway congestion, encouraging ecotourism and adventure travel, local
economic development, improving mental and physical health via recreation and
exercise, helping to connect people and communities, and helping to create new
public space.”
Launched in 1991, the ECG
was conceived as an off-road route to connect New York, Philadelphia, and
Washington, D.C. Plans grew and the project swallowed the entire East Coast
with a goal to link 25 major cities in 15 states plus D.C. Currently about 20
percent complete, trail segments are designated in all
but three of the states along the trail’s corridor. When complete, ECG will
stretch over 3,000 miles. To support the Alliance, volunteer or to learn more
see www.greenway.org.
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