Tim Vermette has been a busy boy lately.
give the man a used lawnmower and he gives us back a trail you can jog on with pride.
Before and after images of the rail bed on Railroad St.
Tim Vermette, the MRTA Project Director has been sneaking out with a lawn mower clearing more and more trail bed every time. This is some of the work Tim did today. The sad part is that the weeds grow back as fast as he can cut them. Once the tracks are removed and an actual hard pack trail is put down, it will be much easier to keep the sides groomed for running and cycling. Cheers to Tim for his awesomeness!
Tags: cleanup, clearing, Today on the Trail
we only have one…and a homemade one at that…but hopefully by advertising our meetings in more than newspapers, we can draw in the curious and the just plain interested. If people think National Grid is doing all this trail clearing for US, we may as well take advantage of it.
Today on the Trail I spied some new graffiti – funny i dont’ remember THIS much tagging of the granite bridge..perhaps it’s a new phenomenon. there is also evidence of a camp fire and a lot of empty beer bottles, perhaps some kids were letting off some steam. now we have to get out there and clean it up.
Including somehow removing a television and a propane tank from the river.
Tags: graffiti, Today on the Trail
Our clean up days have been reduced to One Hour sweeps, and we do more in that one hour than most people do in three!
Thanks Gang!
Tags: cleanup
Thank you for a successful cleanup day!
We had such a great turn out and accomplish so much more in these little clean up splurges, that in future we will limit our clean ups to no more than 1-2 hours, depending on location. Whatever we miss we get on the next pass.
This time out we tackled the Railroad St location just north of the Old Depot. There is an issue with trees and brush left on the trail from the VFW roofing project, but no doubt we can get that taken care of in time. Aside from that we made great headway removing all the visible trash and debris.
Tags: cleanup, Today on the Trail
As expect Methuen’s Spicket Basin gets flooded a few days AFTER the rain stops falling. There are a number of low flooded spots on the Rail Trail but nothing unusual – except for this tank, which stopped by for a visit.
Tags: flooding, spicket river
The kids in Methuen have been oh so busy. We have fresh tagging under the Rt 213 overpass. Admittedly the art work is quite impressive and obviously represents an investment of time and energy. However when the trail is completed this particular type of artwork will look out of place; in the meantime it is worth the walk to go check it out.
Tags: cleanup, graffiti
Birding along the rail trail
Before and after sneak peak
