PSE&G Trail

This Sunday I had the absolute pleasure of biking on the recently completed first segment of the PSE&G Bike Trail. This segment of the trail starts at Penn Lyle Road and ends (for now) on South Mill Road. I stopped to take photographs at where the trail crosses Woodmere Road. I'm happy to say that the trail is already being extensively used, as can be seen by these photographs of a father and daughter biking on the trail and of a jogger. I saw others on the trail as well, including a family of five bicycling (with helmets!).

The trail, when completed will start from Penn Lyle Road and extend through Community Park to end at Rabbit Hill Road, as it follows under the PSE&G Power Lines (which is on land that long ago supported a trolly line that bisected West Windsor). It's expeceted to be completed by late fall. Kudos to the Mayor and his staff, particularly Sam Surtees and Jim Parvesse, for having the vision and persistence to make this trail happen. Credit also to Pete Weale and Ham Pakradooni, the fomer a member of the Recreational Trails and Bikeways Committee of FOWWOS, and the latter a member of the Mayor's Bicycle and Pedestrian Task Force, two groups I had the pleasure of co-chairing with Ken Naglak. Pete and Ham made many calls to PSE&G officials to help to convince PES&G to allow for this right of way. It is personally very gratifying to
see this trail, as it was the idea of this trail that first sparked Ken's and my interest in bicycle/pedestrian advocacy. We were pleased to find out when we inquired that the township was already working toward this, and we used our groups to help lobby for the trail. I look forward to the completion of the trail as it is currently envisioned, and look forward to extending the trail into Plainsboro and to developing connecting trails to create an exciting recreational trail network in our town.