Category Archives: Connecticut

ECG Week-a-Year Tour 2012, Portland to Hartford, Aug. 19 – 25

We are very excited about the second annual Week-a-Year Tour which will go from Portland, Maine to Hartford, Connecticut! This diverse route will go along the coast in Southern Maine, through the cities of Boston, MA and Providence, RI. We’ll be … Continue reading

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New England Bike-Walk Summit a stunning success!

It was standing room only in Providence as the ECGA presented the first-ever New England Bike-Walk Summit on October 7!  About 170 people came from all corners of New England, plus a good contingent from New York, and presenters from … Continue reading

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Fall Greenway Rides Building Community

This Fall is full of group rides along the East Coast Greenway — from Maine to North Carolina and many communities in between. We had a lovely ride from Yale University to the Town of Simsbury in Connecticut, the third … Continue reading

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Fernandina Beach; time-machine magic

(Following is the second of two installments about experiencing the route of the East Coast Greenway between Jacksonville, Florida, and St. Marys, Georgia. © 2010, Herbert L. Hiller, Inc.) Herb Hiller Southeast Region Program Consultant It was here in Old … Continue reading

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NASA Report Shows Greenways Needed to Lower Emissions

by Dennis Markatos-Soriano NASA just released a report showing that the key culprit causing global warming today is on-road transportation. While coal plants and agriculture are big emitters too, some of their heating emissions are offset by cooling emissions such … Continue reading

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Connecticut Summit & NYC DOT Engagement

I attended the East Coast Greenway summit in Stamford Connecticut yesterday. Great news was announced that ConnDOT is now officially supporting the creation of a 37.5 Merritt Parkway Trail which ECG local advoacates have been championing for years. ConnDOT did … Continue reading

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A Great Beginning

Dear friends of the East Coast Greenway Alliance, It is an honor to be chosen as your next Executive Director. I’ve spent the last few weeks getting to know your amazing organization and am so excited to lead it in … Continue reading

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