Officials break ground on rail-to-trail project
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) – Officials have broken ground on East Tennessee’s first Rails to Trails project.
The Johnson City Press (http://bit.ly/1aMgYHa) reports officials report the ceremony Wednesday celebrated the first phase of the project, which will eventually become a pedestrian path called the Tweetsie Trail that stretches 10 miles from Johnson City to Elizabethton. Officials from both cities attended.
The first 6-mile section will offer recreational opportunities between the Alabama Street trail head in Johnson City and Sycamore Shoals State Historic Area in Elizabethton.
Members of the Rails-to-Trails Task Force have raised about $135,000 and have launched a fundraising drive for more. The estimated cost for the entire project is about $530,000.
