New Portion of Trolley Trail Opens in College Park Near Edible Garden
A new segment of the Rhode Island Avenue Trolley Trail has opened in the Berwyn neighborhood in College Park, after years of negotiation with a neighboring homeowner.
The 40-foot stretch of trail is not much, lengthwise, but it solves a problem for trail users, who had to go around the missing segment for the past 20 years.
College Park Mayor Patrick Wojahn said the city signed a legal settlement with the property owner that allowed it to complete and pave the trail segment, and a virtual ribbon-cutting was held earlier this month.
This portion of the Trolley Trail is also near the city’s edible permaculture garden, which is between Greenbelt Road and Tecumseh Street.
Maintained by the Committee for a Better Environment, the garden includes blueberry, bayberry, Asian pear, semi-dwarf apple, red currant, Nanking bush cherry and pawpaw trees and the public is free to pick and eat.
The city plans to extend the garden to the south in the future.
Actually the new trail segment is about 200 feet long and the easement agreement is with a commercial property owner and not a homeowner..
200ft? Are you referring to the section next to the Kim Studio, by Roanoke pl and Berwyn rd?
It is the parking lot across from the Kim Studio and the other vacant stores on that block.