Solebury Awarded $1M For Rt 202 Cross-County Trail Project

Pennsylvania officials on Tuesday announced the approval of funding for 82 projects aimed to improve transportation alternatives and enhance mobility and public accessibility across the state. One of those projects is in Solebury Township.

Solebury will receive $1,000,000 to build the next segment of the Route 202 Cross-County Trail within the Aquetong Park boundaries.

In total, the Wolf administration awarded $66.8 million through the Surface Transportation Block Grant program Set-Aside or Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside. The TA Set-Aside provides funding for projects and activities defined as transportation alternatives, including on- and off-road pedestrian and bicycle facilities, infrastructure projects for improving non-driver access to public transportation and enhanced mobility, community improvement activities, and environmental mitigation, trails that serve a transportation purpose, and safe routes to school projects.

PennDOT evaluated the applications and made selections based on such criteria as safety benefits, reasonableness of cost, readiness for implementation, statewide or regional significance, integration of land use and transportation decision making, collaboration with stakeholders, and leverage of other projects or funding.

“Our citizens are taking advantage of an array of trails and improvements that enhance the state’s quality of life, and these new investments will build on our successes in making Pennsylvania an attractive place to live and work,” PennDOT Secretary Leslie S. Richards said.

The following additional Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside Projects were approved in Bucks County:

• Doylestown Township – $985,000 for construction of a 0.8-mile trail along Shady Retreat and Burpee Roads that will connect several neighborhoods to the Doyle Elementary School, Lenape Middle School and Central Bucks West High Schools.
• Lower Makefield Township – $700,000 for 3,500 linear feet of 10’ multi-use trail that will connect the existing trail to several township facilities, parks and schools.

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