Councilors Storch and Mapp were joined by Darlene McWilliams
for an interview by the Courier's Mark Spivey (back to photographer).
Plainfielders might be surprised to learn that the city's most rural, idyllic spot is in the Fourth Ward, where the city's long-hoped-for Green Brook bike trail will connect to the already existing trail in Green Brook.
Councilor Cory Storch arranged for the Courier News to cover the expected start -- at last -- of work on the trail as one of the newspaper's Earth Day 2010 stories.
The Green Brook is idyllic where the three towns join.
Plainfield's segment of the Green Brook bike trail
will run along the edge of the brook on the right.
This renovated Victorian farmhouse, with its intact carriage house, abuts the trail.
The trail, planning for which received encouragement from the late Mayor Al McWilliams, himself an avid biker who could be seen riding everywhere in the Queen City, is proposed to run from the juncture on Jefferson Avenue of Plainfield, Dunellen and Green Brook eastward along the entire course of the brook separating Plainfield from its northern neighbors to a terminal point at Terrill Road.
Storch was joined by Councilor Adrian Mapp and Darlene McWilliams, widow of the late mayor. As I was about to leave, Planning Director Bill Nierstedt and City Administrator Bibi Taylor arrived for the event.
Councilor Storch wrote up the event on his blog (see here) and the Courier's Mark Spivey reported it here.
Read the coverage and take a ride over to see this charming corner of Plainfield (Jefferson Avenue, which divides Plainfield and Dunellen, starts at West Front Street near the old National Starch plant).
You will be refreshed and eager to see this beneficial project get under way.
Follow Jefferson Avenue from West Front Street to the trail's end.
- Cory Storch' Blog: "Earth Day in Plainfield"
- Courier: "Green Brook trail more than a dream"
-- Dan Damon [follow]
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4 comments:
What a wonderful idea...but will it really ever happen??
After all, this is Plainfield......
What was the chant from the Obama campaign?...
¡Si, se puede!
Never give up hopo!
I live in Plainfield on Jefferson. I used to like the idea of this bike trail being built. But now, I don't. This area should stay the way it is. Quiet and unknown. No additional garbage dumping and used tires will make this a nature trail. Don't open this up to the general Plainfield attitude of disrespect. I'm sorry, but Plainfield has more important house cleaning to do first.
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I live in Plainfield on Jefferson. I used to like the idea of this bike trail being built. But now, I don't. This area should stay the way it is. Quiet and unknown. No additional garbage dumping and used tires will make this a nature trail. Don't open this up to the general Plainfield attitude of disrespect. I'm sorry, but Plainfield has more important house cleaning to do first.
Anonymous worked for me-google did not.
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