Someday the South Shore Trail will be a 14.4 mile trail connectiong the WB&A Trail with the B&A Trail. Someday was originally to be 2002 or even as early as 1999. But it has been stuck at 0.84 miles for several years. The one open section, from the Westfield Annapolis mall to Anne Arundel Medical Center, was recently made an official section of the East Coast Greenway. But work promised long ago, or even less long ago, on the rest of the trail hasn't materialized yet.
As recently as August of 2013, work was to start last summer. But it doesn't appear that it has. At that time the full trail wouldn't be completed until sometime well after 2018. But now, who knows?
Tom Petty was right, the waiting is the hardest part.
Unfortunately this pattern seems to be the rule rather than the exception. Since I moved to the area over 10 years ago there are numerous trail projects that have progressed very little - the WB&A bridge over the Patuxent, the connector from the NW Branch to Fort Totten, most of the Met Branch, Rock Creek trail reconstruction. I am grateful that the southern segment of the Met Branch is complete and that substantial progress is being made on the Anacostia trail.
Posted by: Purple Eagle | December 01, 2014 at 08:30 PM
substantial progress wont be made on the anacostia trial. mark my words...
becasue most people -- esp cyclists -- are ahistorical, they dont realize that most of these projects will never be finished -- or started.
Posted by: me | December 03, 2014 at 01:35 AM
Curious -- does anyone know who we could reach out to to push the south shore trail along? Some county representative? There are more and more new homes and families going in along the trail and where we are on Millersville Road, there are no sidewalks for recreation with the family. The trail is much anticipated by our family but I'd hate for it to be 10+ years from now as it seems has been the case so far...
Posted by: BreW | August 28, 2015 at 02:24 PM