EASTON, Pa. – Running, walking and biking are heading to the next level in Northampton County.<\/p>\n
A big boost in state funds will help the county develop a new recreational trail, nearly 18 acres, between Easton and West Easton.<\/p>\n
An elevated trail and linear park, similar to New York City’s Highline, is soon coming to the area.<\/p>\n
The long time coming “Easton Highline” project has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Shapiro-Davis Administration, after a federal grant was rescinded.<\/p>\n
“Maybe I’ll bring my bike, and we can bike across the highline,” said Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Austin Davis.<\/p>\n
Davis visited Easton with state and local lawmakers on Friday.<\/p>\n
“I can’t wait to come back for the ribbon cutting,” said Davis. “We’re redeveloping former industrial sites and revitalizing communities, like Easton.”<\/p>\n
The initiative is part of the DCNR’s $82 million award to hundreds of projects across the state.<\/p>\n
“Every time I come to Easton, it just looks better and better,” said Cindy Adams Dunn, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) Secretary.<\/p>\n
Easton Mayor Sal Panto said the project is making history.<\/p>\n
“This is the only highline that will connect two states in the whole nation,” said Panto.<\/p>\n
It will line the Lehigh and Delaware Rivers and connect neighborhoods to the Two Rivers Trail Network. Future links will be to the D&L Trail and the Morris Canal Greenway in Phillipsburg, New Jersey.<\/p>\n
Officials are hoping the highline will create opportunities for recreational activities and bring in in tourism.<\/p>\n
“These projects don’t stop at municipal borders, they really connect all the neighborhoods families and strengthen our entire county,” said Northampton County Executive Tara Zrinski.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. – Running, walking and biking are heading to the next level in Northampton County. A big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,6290],"class_list":["post-95055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-easton-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95055","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=95055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}