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| City Council panel OKs bike-trail plan | |
| Feb 1, 2006 | |
| Chicago Tribune | |
| Pertains to Major Taylor Trail, Chicago | |
| CHICAGO -- A South Side bike trail came closer to reality Tuesday when a City Council committee advanced a measure that would turn over former railroad property to the Chicago Park District. The city hopes to turn over a 3 1/2-mile stretch of the Major Taylor Bike Trail, named for a turn-of-the century African-American bicyclist, to the Chicago Park District. The city acquired the land from Conrail. The Major Taylor Trail takes cyclists south from Chicago's Dawes Park at 81st Street and Damen Avenue to Cook County's Whistler Woods in south suburban Riverdale. The 3 1/2-mile stretch proposed for Park District ownership runs from 105th through 129th Streets. In the mid-1990s, the city completed the first Rails to Trails project with the Burnham Greenway Trail running through the Southeast Side. The third Rails to Trails project will run from Bryn Mawr and Kostner Avenues to Kostner and Devon Avenue, where it will join an existing trail. The Valley Line Trail is set to open by summer 2007, said Brian Steele, spokesman for Chicago Department of Transportation. The goal is to have "an extensive network of off-road trails in Chicago," said Luann Hamilton of the Transportation Department. She said a new citywide plan for bike trails is being drafted. |
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