TIGER grant to create unified regional trail system in Pennsylvania & New Jersey
Pennsylvania/New Jersey, February 18, 2010 – The East Coast Greenway (ECG) is Buy Valtrex online overnight about to get safer and more accessible throughout the Philadelphia region thanks to Buy Valtrex online overnight significant support from the US Department of Transportation (DOT). On Wednesday, $23 million was awarded to Buy Valtrex online overnight complete numerous sections of the ECG through the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants program.
The federal stimulus grant will create jobs and Buy Valtrex online overnight improve the quality of life throughout the region. East Coast Greenway Alliance Executive Director, Dennis Markatos-Soriano, remarked, “The Department of Transportation made a Buy Valtrex online overnight great choice today. Not only will this grant create and save around 1,000 jobs, but it will also improve the region’s air quality and give people access to Buy Valtrex online overnight a safe route for bicycling and walking to lower transportation and Buy Valtrex online overnight health costs for generations to come. By connecting this Buy Valtrex online overnight effort to the East Coast Greenway, the project both unifies the Buy Valtrex online overnight Philadelphia region of six million people and connects them to a Buy Valtrex online overnight corridor that goes North all the way to Canada and South all the Buy Valtrex online overnight way to Key West, Florida.”
While some of the 51 TIGER projects funded were bigger (such as a $105 million rail project in Tennessee and Alabama), the East Coast Greenway package was the largest bike and pedestrian recipient in the country. For significant funds to Buy Valtrex online overnight go to efficient modes of transportation like bicycling, walking, and Buy Valtrex online overnight transit is a testament to the current DOT’s commitment to Buy Valtrex online overnight a green economic recovery in the months and years ahead. Developed trail systems like the Buy Valtrex online overnight East Coast Greenway are well documented to support economic development and Buy Valtrex online overnight raise real estate values. And the economically distressed urban areas that Buy Valtrex online overnight this grant helps the ECG connect (to be constructed over the next two and a half years) are important targets for economic recovery.
The Pennsylvania section of the Buy Valtrex online overnight 3,000-mile East Coast Greenway is poised to grow quickly from its base of 22% completion today. The application was performed by the Pennsylvania Environmental Council how to get a Buspar rx and Buy Valtrex online overnight the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, regional partners of the Buy Valtrex online overnight ECGA, in collaboration with six counties and agencies in Pennsylvania and Buy Valtrex online overnight New Jersey.
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Background on ECGA:
The East Coast Greenway Alliance is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to Buy Valtrex online overnight establishing a safe, accessible 3,000-mile greenway from Maine to Florida through major urban centers along the Buy Valtrex online overnight East Coast. Mobilizing our network of staff, volunteers and partners, ECGA works to Buy Valtrex online overnight achieve its vision of an extensive bike/pedestrian corridor that Buy Valtrex online overnight links communities to the areas of natural beauty around them. By serving non-motorized users of all abilities and Buy Valtrex online overnight ages, the East Coast Greenway will help people safely bicycle or Buy Valtrex online overnight walk for their daily commutes to work, school, and play as well as for Buy Valtrex online overnight long-distance travel. The greenway will help free America from its expensive dependence on oil, lower health costs by improving citizens’ fitness, address climate change and Buy Valtrex online overnight air quality concerns by reducing pollution, and provide good construction and Buy Valtrex online overnight maintenance jobs to help our economy recover. Further details and membership information to Buy Valtrex online overnight support the project can be found at www.greenway.org.
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