1. There are more than 40 miles of hiking, biking and walking trails throughout the Town of Greece, and town officials are looking at ways to improve them. The Town Board recently hired a consultant to help craft a bicycle and pedestrian trail master plan. The study is being funded by an $80,000 grant obtained by the town from the Genesee Regional Transportation Council. Florida-based Sprinkle Construction will partner with two local firms, SRF Associates and EDR, to develop the master plan.
2. Nature trails are located at Badgerow Park, Beatty Point, Bisig and Northwest Quadrant, Burger Park, and Cranberry Pond. Trails are also located at Buttonwood Park, the Rachow Open Space area off of Flynn Road, in Greece Canal Park, along the Erie Canal, and at Canal Ponds. The Route 390 bike path stretches for just over five miles.
The trails in town are not all owned by Greece. For example, those inside Greece Canal Park are owned by Monroe County, as that is a county park. Regardless, town workers maintain each of them. The aim of the study is to take an inventory of the town already has, develop a set of recommandations and formulate a set of actions to achieve them, according to Gary Tajkowski, the town's director of development planning services.
"It's an offshot of the town's continuing efforts to preserve open space. Some of it that we've acquired, we've put trails in," he said, pointing to Burger Park.
3. One objective is to look at how to link some of the existing trails, as well as connect them to trails in neighboring municipalities, likes Gates and the City of Rocheser, thereby creating some new ones, according to Tajkowski. For example, connections between trails along the Lake Ontario State Parkway and Interstate 390 could be a possibility.
"The expenditure is not to build new trails or pathways. It's to examine what we already have and to develop recommendations of what else we ought to have," he said. "We're very happy to be able to set out a plan for an enhancement and expansion of our networkand an interconnection of our network."
1. There are more than 40 miles of hiking, biking and walking trails throughout the Town of Greece, and town officials are looking at ways to improve them. The Town Board recently hired a consultant to help craft a bicycle and pedestrian trail master plan. The study is being funded by an $80,000 grant obtained by the town from the Genesee Regional Transportation Council. Florida-based Sprinkle Construction will partner with two local firms, SRF Associates and EDR, to develop the master plan.
2. Nature trails are located at Badgerow Park, Beatty Point, Bisig and Northwest Quadrant, Burger Park, and Cranberry Pond. Trails are also located at Buttonwood Park, the Rachow Open Space area off of Flynn Road, in Greece Canal Park, along the Erie Canal, and at Canal Ponds. The Route 390 bike path stretches for just over five miles.
The trails in town are not all owned by Greece. For example, those inside Greece Canal Park are owned by Monroe County, as that is a county park. Regardless, town workers maintain each of them. The aim of the study is to take an inventory of the town already has, develop a set of recommandations and formulate a set of actions to achieve them, according to Gary Tajkowski, the town's director of development planning services.
"It's an offshot of the town's continuing efforts to preserve open space. Some of it that we've acquired, we've put trails in," he said, pointing to Burger Park.
3. One objective is to look at how to link some of the existing trails, as well as connect them to trails in neighboring municipalities, likes Gates and the City of Rocheser, thereby creating some new ones, according to Tajkowski. For example, connections between trails along the Lake Ontario State Parkway and Interstate 390 could be a possibility.
"The expenditure is not to build new trails or pathways. It's to examine what we already have and to develop recommendations of what else we ought to have," he said. "We're very happy to be able to set out a plan for an enhancement and expansion of our networkand an interconnection of our network."
