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Montour Trail Council opens new segment
Saturday, May 13, 2000
The Montour Trail Council yesterday formally opened a new South Hills segment of its biking-walking trail.
The trail was built by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission -- without toll booths. The almost one-mile segment between Snowden Road and Gill Hall Road in South Park and Jefferson Hills runs along the Piney Fork Road Extension.
The turnpike commission built the 10-foot-wide, asphalt paved trail and a paved parking lot off Snowden Road because the route of the Mon-Valley Expressway took a closed portion of a Pennsylvania Railroad right-of-way where the trail was to be built.
The Trail Council will maintain the trail under a management contract with Allegheny County.
"The commission worked very hard to preserve a safe, suitable, right-of-way for the trail," said Dennis Pfeiffer, Trail Council president.
The trail segment is part of a 204-mile rails-to-trails project between Pittsburgh and Cumberland, Md., that is approximately two-thirds completed. When it's finished it will hook up with the C&O Towpath in Maryland, creating a 400-mile trail system from Pittsburgh to the nation's capital.
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