From: eravin@panix.com (Ed Ravin)
Subject: East Coast Greenway -- A Bike Trail from Boston to Washington, DC
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 05:10:09 GMT
Organization: Transportation Alternatives

In reponse to a couple of requests, I took a few minutes and typed in the
brochure describing the East Coast Greenway.  Please direct all further
inquiries to the telephone numbers listed at the bottom of the brochure.
Those of you who want to support the effort, either financially or by
working for the trail segment in your community, should send in the coupon
at the bottom of this message.

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THE EAST COAST GREENWAY

A Trail Connecting Cities...


From the cradle of liberty to the Statue of Liberty to the Liberty Bell and
onward to Washington, DC and beyond, the dream of an East Coast Greenway,
an off-road emerald corridor through the most densely populated cities in
the United States is an achievable vision.  Many segments are already in
use.  Other portions need only improvement; and some require public
acquisition and development before the greenway can serve millions of
cyclists, skaters, runners, and walkers making their way on local jaunts or
intercity expeditions.

The route, as researched by a loose committee whose members span its
distance, uses abandoned railroads, parkway greenspaces, canal towpaths,
waterfront esplanades, riverfront paths, existing parks, and new greenspace
opportunities to achieve the nation's first multistate greenway.

The miracle is that the path is quite feasible.  The reality is we need
your help to make it happen.  Local segments of the greenway need grassroot
support and local support organizations.  We also need your help organizing
national public awareness campaigns, special events along the route, and
finding sources of money for the East Coast Greenway and its network of
connector routes that we hope will extend a system of bike/hike trails to
within easy reach of most communities in our region.

The East Coast Greenway will be the inter-urban equivalent to the
Appalachian Trail, bringing people closer to nature and wildlife, and
wildlife and natural areas closer to the people.  It will afford everyone a
sense of liberation from the confines of their daily experience, if only
for the few moments that a mind can reach out to someplace far away...


                                                          BOSTON
                                                   PROVIDENCE
                                                  HARTFORD
                                               NEW YORK
                                             TRENTON
                                     PHILADELPHIA
                                  BALTIMORE
                          WASHINGTON DC


1. The East Coast Greenway starts or ends in Boston where it connects to
the Olmstead Emerald Necklace, the original chain of parks, or greenway.

2. Between Providence and Hartford it can use an abandoned railbed to
connect to a network of 70 miles of trails being developed in the Hartford
area.

3. Going south from Hartford, the trial will follow the route of the
Farmington Canal railroad, presently being developed into greenspace.

4. The route may then use a combination of Long Island Sound shorefront
paths in Connecticut and the wide green Merrit Parkway corridor to reach
the New York State line.

5. In New York City, the route will connect to a system of 80 miles of
urban greenways planned through the Bronx.  In Manhattan, it will use
existing trails on either the East River or the Hudson River.  The Staten
Island Ferry will bring travelers to the abandoned Staten Island railroad
line which will bring the greenway into central New Jersey.

6. The existing Delaware and Raritan Canal greenway will take you most of
the way through New Jersey.  This path has just been designated a National
Scenic Historic Trail.

7. The Newtown Greenway being developed between Newtown, Pa. and
Philadelphia will bring you into the City of Brotherly Love.

8. The Skukill River greenway will bring the trail to Penn-Dutch country
where it will veer south toward Baltimore on a group of abandoned railroads
including the Lancaster Junction trail.

9. The Trail connects Baltimore to Washington, DC on a series of local
trails all well along in the planning and implementation process.

10. The East Coast Greenway begins or ends at the Mall in the nation's
capital, another Fredrick Law Olmstead designed greenway between government
institutions.


The East Coast Greenway began as an idea of the East Coast Bicycle
Conference, a coalition of cycling groups.

The East Coast Greenway is a project of the Open Space Institute, Inc.


                           HELP US MAKE IT HAPPEN


JOIN US -- FILL OUT THE COUPON BELOW

[ ]  YES, I want to become a member of the East Coast Greenway and be kept
informed of the progress and events along America's first Interstate
Greenway.  Enclosed is a check for $15 made out to Open Space Institute
Inc./E.C.G.

[ ]  I know that there is a lot of work necessary to accomplish the East
Coast Greenway.  Enclosed is an additional contribution.

[ ] I would like to become an East Coast Greenway volunteer in my community
and help make this exciting idea a physical reality.  Feel free to contact
me on how I can help.  (no donation necessary).


NAME: _________________________________________________________


ADDRESS: ______________________________________________________


CITY: _______________________________  STATE: _____   ZIP: ___________

HOME PHONE: _____________________________

DAY PHONE:  _____________________________

FAX:        _____________________________


Mail to:

        East Coast Greenway
        245 W 25th St
        New York, NY 10001

Regional Contacts:

Tom Pendleton  (202) 265-1418
Dave Lutz      (212) 627-1137
Nancy Bostwick (203) 785-1482
Pat King       (617) 749-2831
-- 
Ed Ravin            | I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology
eravin@panix.com    | where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature
philabs!trintex!elr | returned to our mammal brothers and sisters,
+1 914 993 4737     | and all watched over by machines of loving grace
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