The Eastern Trail Alliance, a New England based trail group responsible for developing a trail from Portsmouth, New Hampshire to South Portland, Maine, is the latest group to sign on in support of the VBF”s Rails-With-Trails petition. This petition asks that trails be included whenever tax dollars are used to upgrade or enhance rail corridors.
“History is on our side,” said John Andrews, President of the Alliance and former president of Saco Trails, “With more rails with trails, hundreds of lives can be saved, community health can be improved… Fuel can be saved… America can be an even more wonderful place to live, work and play.”
The Eastern Trail is being built along the old Eastern Railroad Corridor, the first railroad to connect Boston, Massachusetts to Portland, Maine, operating from 1842 until 1944. Since then, the corridor has been used by utility companies for natural gas and electricity transmission.
The Eastern Trail is also the Southern Maine section of the East Coast Greenway, a proposed network of trails to connect Calais, Maine with Key West, Florida.
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