DVRPC's Regional Trails Program provides planning assistance and financial support to trail developers, counties, municipalities, and nonprofit organizations to complete the Circuit, Greater Philadelphia's 800-plus-mile network of multi-use trails. With financial support from the William Penn Foundation, the Regional Trails Program has provided $25 million in funding to over 150 trail planning, design, and construction projects to date.
Additionally, the Regional Trails Program and Project Implementation staff at DVRPC are able to provide municipal and county partners with technical assistance when evaluating the feasibility and planning of a trail segment or guidance in the pursuit of outside funding.
The Circuit Trails
The Circuit Trail system takes advantage of the many opportunities to build and connect trails across the region that are a product of the area's success in re-purposing unused rail corridors and developing linear parks along the region's waterways. The Circuit will serve as the backbone for a network of "bicycling highways" that will allow safe and efficient travel by bicycle between homes, businesses, parks, open spaces, greenways, schools, and institutions free from motorized traffic.
The first round of Regional Trails Program capital funding grants took place in 2011. Since then, ten rounds of Regional Trails Program grants have been completed. See below of a list and map of prior Regional Trails Program grants.
Regional Trails Program - 2011 to Date
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List of Regional Trails Programs
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