Evanston Receives $580,000 Grant to Rehab the Ladd Arboretum Trail
The 17-acre parcel of land along the North Shore Channel will be rehabilitated with the funding from the Illinois Transportation Enhancement Program.
The Ladd Arboretum Trail will be rehabilitated thanks to a $580,000 grant from the Illinois Transportation Enhancement Program. The trail is among 54 projects funded by the federal program, which encourages transportation-related enhancement projects. The City of Evanston’s match for the rehabilitation project is $145,000, according to a press release. “The arboretum’s existing trails were constructed between 1960 and 1961 and since that time have received minimal capital investment. Presently the trails are in a deteriorated state and due to poor drainage conditions are often unusable in inclement weather,” Doug Gaynor, director of Parks, Recreation and Community Services for the City of Evanston, said in a statement. “This issue is of…
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3:49 pm on Saturday, February 2, 2013
Reject Kenny 3:48 pm on Saturday, February 2, 2013 I would like to see a bike path connection from Green Bay Road & McCormick (Arboretum Trail) and Wilmette's bike path along the Metra's track more ›