Federal transportation chiefs injected $2 million for expansion of metro Denver greenway trails to help urban residents reach the great outdoors on bike and foot. The bulk of those bucks, $1.73 million, is aimed at creating a bike-and-pedestrian route running 7 miles from existing urban greenspace in Arvada to the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, where an interior network of paths is planned. The Federal Transit Administration grant announced Monday was the largest of 29 carved from a $12.5 million pool nationwide, which brings the total invested in better transit to national parks and other public land to $80 million over three years. The infusion gives momentum to a 12-year effort drawing in scores of state, county, municipal and foundation leaders to establish the nation's largest greenspace system linking urban wildlife refuges and parks. Seattle, New York and other cities have embarked on similar projects...more
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