Rail Trails in Delaware - East Coast Greenway, Pomeroy and Newark Railroad, Junction and Breakwater Trail (Paperback)

Chapters: East Coast Greenway, Pomeroy and Newark Railroad, Junction and Breakwater Trail. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The East Coast Greenway, or ECG, is a project to create a nearly 3,000-mile (4,800 km) urban path linking the major cities along the Atlantic coast of the United States, from Calais, Maine to Key West, Florida for non-motorized human transportation. It is similar, both in length and conception, to the twelve routes of the EuroVelo project throughout Europe. Work on ECG began in 1991. As of 2009, 24% of the trail is complete (off-road). In 1991 a group of cyclists and long-distance trail enthusiasts met in New York City and formed a national non-profit organization, the East Coast Greenway Alliance, or ECGA, to plan and promote a greenway linking existing and planned trails into a contiguous "spine route" between Atlantic coast cities. In the summer of 1992 the ECGA sent nine cyclists from Boston, New York, Vermont, and Washington, D.C. on a 30-day "exploratory" cycle tour. In June 1999 the ECG was selected by the White House for designation as a National Millennium Trail. Between February and June 2000, the ECG Wave relay transported a bottle of sea water from Key West, Florida up the eastern seaboard to Canada along the route of the ECG. Transportation was entirely non-motorized to celebrate the ECG's selection as a National Millennium Trail and to promote human-powered transportation. Major cities connected by the spine route are: There is also a planned coastal route that provides an alternative to the Richmond-Wilmington leg of the journey by way of the Tidewater region of Virginia, passing through Virginia Beach and continuing on through the Outer Banks of North Carolina before rejoining the mainland near the mouth of ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=27591