A fancy name for a walkway
Thursday, September 30th, 2010Greenways are the in thing these days basically because they let councils show an eco friendly face, use what would ordinarily be waste land and collect lots of grant money.
That said, they do provide genuine advantages to the communities through which they run. For instance, the disused railway embankment behind our house had became largely a muddy path surrounded by weeds which were regularly set fire to over the summer. That was maybe a decade or so ago when they decided that it should be a greenway.
Over a fairly short period of time, the muddy path was replaced by a tarmac one, the weeds were cut back and trees were planted along the route. We all thought that the burning would continue but in fact it’s never happened since.
The only downside now is that the greenway was put in a little bit too soon as it doesn’t have the lighting that later ones have so you can’t really use it at night. In fact, that’s just one of a whole raft of improvements that we’ll see in a second similar scheme that’s being created as from this November. I’ve walked along parts of what’ll be the new route and they seriously need a cleaning out but in a few years time that’ll all change.
A bit of a gimmic name-wise, but one that’s worth having for all the plus points that it attracts.
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