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Indiana Trails Meeting Today To Discuss 62 Mile CSX Trail

Last updated on Wednesday, March 21, 2018

(SALEM) - The Indiana Trails group will conduct an open meeting today at 4 p.m. at Salem City Hall Council Chambers.

Richard Vonnegut, CEO of Indiana Trails, says discuss will center on the the acquisition of the former Monon Railroad Right-of- Way "Monon South" to continue the use of this 62 mile corridor as a bike, hike transportation route.

The eventual trail would be open to the public.

Indiana Trails is looking at the north end in Lawrence County, from Yockey Road, over 62 miles through Orange, Washington, Clark, and Floyd Counties to Mt Tabor Road, in New Albany.

There will be two meetings each month. A meeting has already been held in Bedford and will continue in alternating fashion in each county.

Vonnegut hopes to explain the process of how the corridor can be used for bike, hike, and future rail use, and explain about "trail towns", and to shift three national routes, each for hiking and bicycling, onto this corridor, to get hikers and bicyclists off of busy streets and roads, to make the hikers and cyclists safer than on-road.

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