USDOT pledges funding for East Coast Greenway - Management and Administration

Public Roads, Nov-Dec, 2003

Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy Emil Frankel joined Congressional leaders, representatives of the East Coast Greenway Alliance, and health and environmental groups on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to celebrate National Trails Day. The event also announced the creation of the East Coast Greenway, a new trail that will link East Coast cities from Maine to Florida.

The greenway, when completed, will be a 4,184kilometer (2,600-mile) path that will be closed to motor vehicles. Frankel gave trail markers signed by U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta to representatives from the East Coast Greenway Alliance to post along the route. The greenway will contribute to a cleaner environment and healthier lifestyles.

Funding under ISTEA and TEA-21 is helping underwrite the trail. Using Federal highway and some transit funding, States and metropolitan areas provided about $400 million for sections of the route.

For more information, visit www.greenway.org.