Canalway Trail won’t be finished anytime soon

According to the Schenectady Daily Gazette, the Canalway Trail System will remain incomplete for some time to come:

Missing link in bike trail will remain
State postpones project due to budget constraints
Friday, July 11, 2008
By Michael Lamendola
Gazette Reporter

SCHENECTADY — The state has postponed indefinitely efforts to finish gaps in the 524-mile long Canalway Trail System, including a six-mile gap between Rotterdam Junction and Amsterdam.

A state official cited a need to repair dams and canal locks as pre-empting bike path work.

Schenectady County officials and bicycle enthusiasts called the state’s decision unfortunate.

The state had planned to close the Rotterdam Junction and Amsterdam gap this year. Had it been completed, the bike trail would have run unbroken for 40 miles from Montgomery County to the Albany County line.

To date, the state has completed approximately 260 miles of the Canalway Trail System, leaving unfinished sections in Oneida, Herkimer and Erie counties. The trail system consists of four segments: the 100-mile Erie Canal Heritage Trail in western New York; the 36-mile Old Erie Canal State Park Trail in central New York; the 60-mile Mohawk-Hudson Bikeway in eastern New York; and the eight-mile Glens Falls Feeder Canal Trail.

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Not to get too technical, but that’s a real bummer. The folks who write for this site, and thousands of others, use the Canalway Trail system regularly. We’ve all been looking forward to the day when it, like its namesake, would run from Albany to Buffalo.

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