South Hills Trail Ribbon Cutting
October 17 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am EDT
Montour Trail Council will hold the official grand opening for a new section of trail between Stewart Road and Wood Street along Piney Fork Creek in South Park Township at approximately MM 36.6.
The opening of this section of trail is a notable milestone for the Montour Trail. It not only closes the last trail gap between Library and the western part of Jefferson Hills Borough, but it eliminates the last on-road section of trail between MMo0.0 in Moon Township and Green Man tunnel. Trail users will now have the enjoyment of 40 miles of continuous off-road trail. Most notably, trail users will no longer be forced to utilize the busy Brownsville Road to travel eastward toward Jefferson Hills Borough or westward toward Peters Township.
The project to complete the four-mile section between Library and the Green Man tunnel has been underway for more than 15 years. It required the construction of four bridges, a multi-million dollar rehabilitation of the 500’ long Library Viaduct spanning State Route 88, and numerous other minor construction projects. The total cost was nearly $5 million.
The Montour Trail Council, led by project manager David Oyler, secured significant grant funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for the segment between Wood Street and
Stewart Road. The prime construction contractor is MSB Excavating of Eighty-Four, PA, and the engineering contractor is Gateway Engineering of Pittsburgh.
Please join us as we thank our community of financial benefactors as well as those who designed, managed and executed the construction of this new trail. Parking will be available at Secondary Storage of South Park, located at 3627 Wood St, South Park Township. You may also join our celebration via the Port Authority Silver Line on the T. The terminus in Library is only a short walk from the ceremony site. Transportation will be provided from the T stop. And, of course, you now have the option to cycle all the way from Moon Township, and points in-
between, to join our celebration.
