Trolley Trail in PG County to be extended south

Construction will begin early this summer on an approximately one-mile stretch of the Rhode Island Avenue Trolley Line Trail in Riverdale Park from Tuckerman Street—just south of the Cafritz property— to the recently constructed trail in the Hyattsville EYA district.

The trail will run along the industrial district at the north end of town, take a stroll through the town center parking lot, and pick up again along Rhode Island Avenue beside the current home of the Archie Edwards Blues and Heritage Foundation. That building, which also once housed a book and coffee shop, is actually one of the few existing trolley car depots in the area.

The asphalt path will be built at grade and be about 10-feet wide in most places, said Nivera. The connecting trail in Hyattsville is just asphalt, but because the trial in Riverdale has to follow new Prince George's County stormwater management regulations, it will also include rain gardens and swales, she said. These features are commonly used in construction to harvest rainwater and conserve soil.

Construction on the $600,000 trail will likely take between 6 and 9 months, during which time the trail will be closed, Nivera said. Residents can plan on taking hikes and bike rides on the new trail sometime next spring.

That will still leave a gap across the Cafritz property which will filled in once the property is developed.

Comments

[Greenbelt]

Next step for the trolley trail in my opinion would be at the north end: improvements to the intersection of Greenbelt Road and Road Island Ave. At the least, a better ped/bike signal is needed for crossing the unsignaled Greenbelt Road, with better sidewalks and bike lanes in the whole area. That spur of Greenbelt Road between 193 and Route is vastly overbuilt and encourages speeds far too high. Lane diet would be appropriate, possibly with a landscaped median? to make that area less of a speedway and more of a viable commercial space. College Park?

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