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Residents in communities along the proposed 32-mile Allegheny Valley Trail may learn more about the trail study conducted in 2009 at three public meetings in March:
Tues., March 2, 6:00-8:00 p.m.Millvale Community Center, 416 Lincoln Avenue, Millvale
Wed., March 3, 6:00-8:00 p.m., Alle-Kiski Museum, 224 E. 7th Avenue, Tarentum
Sat., March 6, 1:00-3:00 p.m., Boyd Community Center, 1220 Powers Run Road, O’Hara Twp.
The project is funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources, Allegheny County, Allegheny Rivertown Enterprize Zone, Pennsylvania Environmental Council, Friends of the Riverfront, and the 17 riverfront municipalities. O’Hara Twp. and the Fox Chapel District Association are also assisting with community outreach and fiscal responsibilities.
Once completed, the Allegheny Valley Trail will tie into the Erie-to-Pittsburgh Greenway and the Pittsburgh-to-Harrisburg Mainline Canal Greenway, which follows the 320-mile path of the historic Pennsylvania Mainline Canal.
The trail is richly layered with generations and generations of history. People all across America have ancestors who lived in the Pittsburgh area at one time. Many had businesses along the Pittsburgh rivers or in the Allegheny County hills overlooking the rivers.
Many of the nation’s most prominent corporations and business have made their homes along the banks of the three rivers for reasons of efficiency, convenience or aesthetics; Alcoa, Heinz, Del Monte and Seagate along the Allegheny River; Parkhurst Inc. (Eat & Park); US Steel, Siemens Westinghouse, RedZone Robotics, US Switch & Signal, REI, and the FBI are all helping to restore what once were the brownfields along the Monongahela River; the corridors along the Ohio are still primarily used by the rail industry but our hope is that with further persistence and cooperation, trail groups and local businesses will gain permission from the railroads to develop economically sustainable and environmentally regenerated areas along the Ohio. -- Click here to read more historical riverfacts.
The plan includes a trail and riverfront development plan that will connect 17 municipalities along the Allegheny River between Millvale and Harrison Twp.
The Allegheny Valley Community Trail Initiative is a coalition of municipal leaders, trail groups, greenway advocates, and elected officials from Aspinwall, Blawnox, Brackenridge, Cheswick, Etna, Fox Chapel, Frazer Twp., Harmar Twp., Harrison Twp., Millvale, O’Hara Twp., Pittsburgh, Shaler, Sharpsburg, Springdale Borough, Springdale Twp. and Tarentum.
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