{"id":301164,"date":"2026-10-06T23:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/301164\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T23:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:32:07","slug":"erie-canalway-trail-in-rochester-reopens-after-nearly-4-million-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/301164\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Canalway Trail in Rochester reopens after nearly $4 million upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 The Erie Canalway Trail in Rochester is open again after a nearly $4 million rehabilitation project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The upgrades covered a four-mile stretch of the trail between Lyell and Mount Hope avenues, according to state canal officials. The project included new paving, improved intersections, better accessibility and safety enhancements for walkers, runners and cyclists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNew paving, all of the intersections, making sure that they\u2019re ADA compliant, making sure that they\u2019re safe for all users, whether you\u2019re walking, running or cycling,\u201d said Shane Mahar, director of public engagement canals at the New York Power Authority. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The investment was funded by the State Canal Corporation as part of ongoing efforts to improve and modernize the Erie Canalway Trail.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/erie-canalway-trail\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erie Canalway Trail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 The Erie Canalway Trail in Rochester is open again after a nearly $4 million rehabilitation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,64810,138,137],"class_list":["post-301164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-canalway-trail","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}