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Public gets first look at Latrobe-SVC hiking/biking trail

Date: 5/26/2010

Area residents got their first glimpse of the Latrobe Community Revitalization Program (LCRP)’s proposed hiking/biking trail from Latrobe to St. Vincent College during a public presentation Monday night at SVC’s Fred Rogers Center.

The $2.2-million project would connect the existing trails at Legion-Keener Park in Latrobe to the entrance drive to the Fred Rogers Center, according to Jim Pashek, president of Pittsburgh-based Pashek Associates, the firm responsible for the $20,000, grant-funded feasibility study.

The trail would first link the park to Route 981 with a new pedestrian bridge, then follow Route 981 all the way to a proposed painted crosswalk near Jioio’s restaurant. Utilizing an existing Norfolk Southern railroad track crossing, the trail would then continue south along the abandoned railway, heading over Monastery Run to SVC, connecting into another proposed trail system that would link the Fred Rogers Center to Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve.

Pashek said the Latrobe trail also could eventually connect to other areas, including Wimmerton, New Alexandria and Keystone State Park.

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