MethuenRailTrail

Girl Scout Troop 65035 has some Blandings Turtle/Rail Trail art projects on display in the Children’s room of the Nevins Memorial Library! check it out if you can.

The Methuen Rail Trail has accepted a donation of these terrific granite boulders which will serve as landscape features and places to sit.

Big heads up thank you to the Methuen Credit Union and their developers.

We pulled a great deal of trash from the section south of Pine St and north of Five Corners bridge. No matter how much we clean there still seems to be illegal dumping in this area, no doubt due to its complete lack of sightlines. It’s an area in the downtown which is completely out of direct view of nearly everyone. With the construction of the Rail Trail this area will remain cleaner in future. Thanks to everyone who showed up.

Sat April 16th – 10-12am : Information Table – at Healthy Kids Day
Location Methuen YMCA

Sat Apr 23, 2011 8am – 9am Rail Trail Cleanup
Location: The Corner of Union and Railroad St

Sat May 7, 201 1 8am – 9am Rail Trail Cleanup
Location: the End of Pine St

Sat May 7, 2011 9a m – 12am Methuen Clean Up Day
Location: Methuen.

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011, 7pm – 9pm – Methuen Rail Trail Alliance Meeting
Locaion: the Nevins LIbrary

Sunday, May 15th, 2011,  1pm – 5pm Salem Farmer’s Market – Shared Information Table with Salem Bike-Ped Corridor
Location: Lake Street Garden Center

You heard it here first – the MBTA votes to lease the abandoned right of way to the city of Methuen for 99 years.

Thank you to all who helped and supported this effort!
We have a lot more work ahead! please come to the March 8th meeting!

MBTA Agenda item
• Authorization to enter into a Ninety-Nine (99) Year Long Term Lease Agreement with the City of Methuen, the Town of Saugus and the City of Lynn for nominal consideration for the portion of abandoned Manchester and Lawrence Branch Railroad Right of Way in Methuen, Massachusetts consisting of approximately 2 miles, a portion of the abandoned Saugus Branch Right of Way in Saugus consisting of approximately 2.4 miles and a portion of the abandoned Saugus Branch Right of Way in Lynn consisting of approximately 1.8 miles for use as an Alternative Transportation Corridor, a.k.a. Bike Path

Sunday we have a walk on Newburyport’s Clipper City Rail Trail scheduled for all those who want to come check it out.
The rail bed there was very similar to what Methuen has now, with regards to elevation and bridges.
So it will be good to check out how they have dealt with access and signage and so forth.

Apparently the Amtrak Parking Lot at the head of the trail isn’t the “official” parking and they just made it illegal to park on the street nearest the trail head.

I have arranged for us to park in the parking lot at BLUMBERG AND COMPANY 75 PARKER ST which is about 2 blocks from the trail head.
here is the link to the Google map http://goo.gl/maps/lazx

The Newburyport trail is only 1.1 miles, so if it’s nice enough and folks want to we can cross the river on the Rt1 Bridge and walk the Eastern Marsh Trail i in Salisbury which is 1.4 miles.

Holler is you are coming and we can get some carpooling going!
info@methuenrailtrail.org

Tags: clipper city, metrhuen rail trail

1 Hour Cleanup
Sunday, 03 October 2010 at 08:00AM
Union and Railroad St intersection
Cleaning under the Oakland Ave Bridge again
Bring implements of destruction!

Bike/Walk on the Windham Trail
Sunday, 10 October 2010 at 1:00PM
Roulston Road Entrance to the Windham Rail Trail

It’s a bike ride and/or walk. Some will be bringing binoculars. The Windham Trail at that end is about 3 miles long. so it would be a 6+ mile walk both ways. Though it has nice mile markers and you can turn around anytime.

Thanks to all who showed up for our 1 hour cleanup. We sure did get a lot of junk off the trail. And as always thanks to the Vermette family for weedwhacking the last of the tall weeds – now the trail truly can be walked, run or cycled end to end. I hope to see you all at Tuesday’s meeting where we will pick a date for next months’ 1 hour cleanup.

Thank you to all who offered to help. The Spicket River was extra low last Friday and Tim and I just waded in and pulled out the offending materials. And this time we took it to the dump. There is a lot of trash along the banks in spots and hopefully we can keep pulling more out every opportunity.

For now we are going back to cleaning up the Rail Trail itself.
We have a cleanup scheduled for Saturday the 11th at 8 AM – we are meeting at the corner of Union and Rail Road so that we can pull trash out from under the Oakland ave Bridge.