PHOTO: Trail Construction Hard to Miss
The trail will ultimately link Sandy Point State Park to the Baltimore and Annapolis Trail in Arnold.
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Two high school girls cross College Parkway, with the view of hundreds of feet of uprooted trees and foliage behind them.
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Unless you've been living under a rock this past month, you've seen the construction along College Parkway for the upcoming Broadneck Peninsula Trail.
Crews have been clearing a path for the planned 6.6-mile walking and biking trail, which so far has involved uprooting dozens of trees along the parkway, behind Broadneck Library and Broadneck High School, and across from the park.
Shown in the picture are two high school girls crossing College Parkway, with the view of hundreds of feet of uprooted trees and foliage behind them.
The work is expected to continue throughout the year. For more on the trail, see my previous stories:
josh
1:41 pm on Friday, August 24, 2012
As sad as it is to see the trees go, it is even more good to know that we'll be able to enjoy the beauty of the peninsula by foot and neighborhoods will be more accessible by pedestrians.
Gina Ramsey
10:08 am on Saturday, August 25, 2012
Great news, but they should have addressed E College Pkwy first.
Steve Wood
5:48 pm on Saturday, August 25, 2012
Without a buffer of trees between the trail & the road, it will not feel very serene, and traffic will be loud. I hope plans call for some of the buffer to remain. Has anyone read the plans for those sections close to the road?
Catherine M. Salam
11:18 am on Sunday, August 26, 2012
Too bad they could not have left existing trees.
Nancy Curran
4:27 pm on Sunday, August 26, 2012
The trail development is of special concern to the Little Magothy River.
A little known creek named Cat Branch is a 1.5 mile fresh water stream. Cat Branch runs from Broadneck High School to College Parkway and then parallel to College Parkway between the communities of Admirals Walk and Walnut Ridge, under Cape St. Claire Rd. into the Little Magothy River.
The trees at the Bottom of Broadneck Park's dog park were felled by a storm last year.
The sheer loss of trees will stress the filtration of the waters as they flow. Cat Branch will be facing huge increases in sediment and nitrogen if we have any major storms this fall during construction. Our landscape is changing rapidly, can our tiny sub-watershed survive? www.littlemagothyriver.com
Russell M
12:35 pm on Monday, August 27, 2012
As someone who lives on the Little Magothy River I am very excited for this trail to be completed! I do hope they replant as many trees along the path as possible both for shade and sediment retention.