from TheWashCycle by washcycle<\/p>\n
Jones Falls Trail progress according to the East Coast Greenway<\/p>\n
Phase 2 of the Jones Falls Trail, a key component of the ECG through Baltimore, is on track again. This phase had been stalled at 95% design for well over a year at the State Highway Administration over ADA improvements to nearby intersections. Impatient local bike activists finally applied some political pressure through the state legislature and broke the logjam. As a result, the project was advertised, a contract has been awarded, and construction will start this summer with completion in about a year.<\/p>\n
Phase 2 will connect the existing phases 1 and 3 of the Jones Falls Trail with the Gwynns Falls Trail in downtown Baltimore. It will be the highest visibility part of the trail in the city, running from the Visitors’ Center, wrapping around the Inner Harbor, and continuing up the Fallsway, past the city’s Farmers’ Market, to Penn Station (Amtrak), where it will meet the existing portions of the Jones Falls Trail. When this segment is complete, ECG users will have about ten miles of ADA-compliant class-one trail traversing the heart of Baltimore.<\/p>\n