$875,000 project included $700,000 AMATS grant
The new trail linking John Brown Tannery Park to Fred Fuller Park isn't officially open because construction is ongoing. Yet Kent residents are using the trail — which is about 95 percent finished — anyway. Kent Parks and Recreation Director John Idone said the new path, part of the countywide Portage Bike and Hike Trail, is meant to bring people who otherwise would not have access, such as seniors, people in wheelchairs and families with strollers, to the scenic banks of the Cuyahoga River. "Families are the big thing," he said. "It's essentially open now. We're trying to keep people off of it, but once the concrete went down it's really hard to keep people off of it." Idone said he understands runners and others who preferred the simple …
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Fred Fuller Park
Middlebury Road Haymaker Parkway, Kent, Oh
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John Brown Tannery Park
Stow Street, Kent, Oh
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Bicyclists and pedestrians will have to use new bridge to access trail near intersection of Lake and North Water streets
Cyclists looking to access the section of The Portage Hike and Bike Trail that spans from Lake Street to Lake Rockwell Road will not be able to jump on the trail in Kent from the east side of the Cuyahoga River. The new pedestrian bridge under construction as part of the Fairchild Avenue Bridge project will link directly to the existing trail, which dead-ends next to Weiss Motors and Knapp's Collision and the Akron Barberton Cluster Railway tracks. Kent City Engineer Jim Bowling said the railroad would not permit a new crossing of the train tracks to allow direct access to the bike trail for pedestrians and cyclists. "They don’t care if it’s a sidewalk, bike path or a street," Bowling said. "We had one crossing before (construction). They …
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Weiss Motors and Knapp's Collision
101 E Crain Ave, Kent, OH
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Wilburforce
9:51 am on Thursday, November 22, 2012
Yep gotta get the ball fields open and the kids out of the house and cookie jar. more ›