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• Updated Calendar of Meetings and Events
• KRTC Board: Minutes | Meeting Times | Members
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News for the Kentucky Rail-Trail Community
• Monon Trail Tour 6/27-28, Indianapolis
Monon Trail/Central Canal Towpath Tour
Indianapolis, IN
June 27-28, 2008
(this is a look see trip for Kentucky railtrail supporters; you do not have to be a member of KRTC to take advanrtage of this trip.)
Weekend Logistics
The Monon Trail/Central Canal Towpath area is approximately 200 miles from Lexington depending on departure and arrival points. Approximate routes from your location can be determined through MapQuest or other map software by using the Indy Greenways Depot address (900 East 64th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46220). Additional route information to the hotel site will be available prior to June 27th.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Contact Hyatt Place directly at 317-843-0064 to reserve your room in the “KY Rails-to-Trails” block. A block of 20 rooms has been reserved with Hyatt Place until May 30th at the rate of $109 (plus tax). Plan to arrive in the Keystone Crossing business district no later than 7pm. Reservations will be made for 7:30 pm at a restaurant in the business district based on the final participant count. Staff members from the Indy Greenways system and the IN Department of Transportation will join us to share the history of the trails.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Meet at the Indy Greenways Depot at 8:30am for orientation of the trail. Parking is available in the surrounding area. Participants will have maps and can choose their own direction to travel or travel in a group. Mileage will vary from 22-35 miles depending on chosen routes. We will make stops along the way at areas of interest. Lunch can be found at locations on the trail. Upo...
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Information on current and proposed projects in Kentucky
• Railbanking by the KY Rails To Trails Council
Railbanking (as defined by the National Trails System Act, 16 USC 1247(d)) is a voluntary agreement between a railroad company and a trail agency to use an out-of-service rail corridor as a trail until some railroad might need the corridor again for rail service. Because a railbanked corridor is not considered abandoned, it can be sold, leased or donated to a trail manager without reverting to adjacent landowners.
Railbanking is done through the Surface Transportation Board in Washington DC for 6 month segments. If done by a governmental agency it is a zero expense; the cost to KRTC as a nonprofit is $350 per six month period.
Following are rail corridors that KRTC has helped to railbanked.
Tyrone Bridge and Rail (Young’s High Bridge). 2.8 miles section of the Norfolk Southern line in Anderson and Woodford Counties including Young’s High Bridge.
The 7th railbank extension was filed by Anderson County and Lawenceburg in Dec 07. KRTC filed the previous 6 and the n...
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• Trail Project in Covington, Cincinnait Inquirer, 2/15/08
Commissioners help pay for trail
BY MIKE RUTLEDGE | MRUTLEDGE@NKY.COM, Article on the Cincinnati Inquirer website, 2/15/08
COVINGTON – Two city commissioners used their own resources to help make part of the proposed Riverfront Commons walking/bicycling trail happen along the Ohio River.
Commissioner Jerry Stricker contributed $20,000 of his own money toward the walkway segment that will link Ky. 8 in Covington’s Botany Hills neighborhood (formerly West Covington) with the platform that used to house the Covington Landing floating entertainment complex.
Stricker now lives along the riverfront and soon will move into the 22-story Ascent at Roebling’s Bridge luxury condominium tower just off the riverfront.
“I am very much in favor of riding bikes and promoting fitness,” Stricker said, explaining his contribution.
Meanwhile, Commissioner Sherry Carran slogged through a week of respiratory flu while filling out a state trails grant application seeking $100,000 for the trail. That application would have been prepared by the city’s parks and recreation director, but Denny Bowman retired from that post to run for mayor.
“I would work on it, then I would conk out,” Carran said. She received lots of help from other city employees, she said: “It was a team effort.”
The 8-to-10-foot, handicapped-accessible asphalt trail would run from near Willie’s Sports Café to the base of Madison Avenue, and would also make the sidewalk in front of Covington’s floodwall murals accessible for the handicapped……the rest of the article is at http://news.enquirer.com:80/apps/pbcs.d...
Proposed Lexington – Big Sandy Project News
The Rail Trail from Lexington to Ashland
• 2008 Supporters & Sponsors Ashland to Lexington Relay
To add your organization's name to the list of sponsors and supporters send an email to dixiemoore@insightbb.com. 3/24/08
Supporters:
Daniel Boone Railtrail
Little Mount Trail Commission
Bluegrass Rails to Trails Foundation
Sponsors:
Bluegrass Cycling Club
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Posted by Dixie Moore, Secretary KRTC
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