Town able to develop Iron Bridge Trail
, Staff Writer
11-02-2009
It’s taken five years, but the Town of Pulaski has finally received the right of way it needs to develop the Iron Bridge Trail across Peak Creek.
The trail project is among items Pulaski Town Council will discuss at its meeting Tuesday. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. in council chambers on the second floor of the municipal building on First Street N.W.
Town Manager John Hawley said Pulaski has been working with Norfolk Southern Railroad since 2004 to obtain a right of way to open the old iron trestle for pedestrians and bicyclists. The 1.215-acre right of way has finally been granted.
The town has a $31,000 grant from Virginia Department of Transportation to fund building of the trail, which would link First Street to the area near the Main/Third Street area near Madison Avenue. The trail would allow pedestrians and people on bicycles to move between the northeast and southeast sections of town without having to go to Washington Avenue.
If town council authorizes Hawley to proceed with the project, VDOT will be notified next Wednesday of the town’s intentions to move forward with the grant project. A number of environmental studies will be required, so he said it could be spring before work can begin.
Now that the train station rebuild is underway, “Our main concern right now is the museum,” he said.
Hawley met with VDOT officials on the museum project Friday morning. He said that project might be ready to advertise for bid by February.
Other items on Tuesday’s agenda include:
• Presentation to the Employee of the Month for October.
• Public comment period.
• Updates on the train station, boundary line adjustment and sewer interceptor lining projects.
• Further discussion of old business such as two-way traffic on Main Street, the Museum Operating Committee, the Bane property at Peak Creek and Randolph Avenue and update on New River Development Corporation.
• New business discussion, including the Interstate 81 Corridor Coalition, a Virginia Transportation Commission grant for tourism brochures, repurchase of a cemetery lot in Oakwood, Virginians for the Arts membership, appointments to committees and Virginia First proposed legislation.
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