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News on the Glen Carbon trail

The Edwardsville Intelligencer is reporting that the village of Glen Carbon is moving forward with plans to extend the Ronald J. Foster Sr. Heritage Trail another 3 miles to Illinois Route 4. That extension would make the trail a total of 11 miles one way.

Even better, there's talk of Glen Carbon working with Madison County officials to extend the trail all the way to Marine. That's exciting to know that the county's already extensive network of trails will be more comprehensive, connecting most of the major cities of Madison County with roads in the rural part of the county. The beauty of Madison County trails is that they actually take you somewhere. Other cities and counties would be wise to learn how officials did it up there and try to emulate them.

Roger 0 comments 2:38 AM