Design team coming to Cave Spring for Silver Comet Trail study

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Meetings this week will likely determine if a link between Cave Spring and the Silver Comet Trail in Polk County is a possibility.

The http://ift.tt/1lUydgi” target=”_blank”>Northwest Georgia Regional Commission is working with Alta Planning + Design to develop a trail study examining the feasibility of connecting Cave Spring with the Silver Comet Trail trailhead in downtown Cedartown.

Julie Meadows, director of regional planning for the NWGRC, said the study will be used to determine what a pathway between the two destinations could mean.

Anyone interested is invited to two special meetings with a team from Alta this week as members look at where a trail might go and talk with local stakeholders.

“They are going to look at several options and routes to see what the best place for a trail would be,” Meadows said. “They will identify the potential impacts, as well as the economic benefits.”

The first meeting is set for Monday at 2 p.m. and will be a workshop meant to kick off the study and share ideas about what the public would like to see from the trail.

The other will be Friday at 9 a.m. Alta will then share the results of their findings and reveal a preliminary proposal for stakeholders to comment on.

Both meetings will happen at the Cave Spring Public Library, 17 Cedartown St. , in the building’s community meeting room.

Local advocates have said the trail will increase bike and pedestrian traffic to the town and help boost tourism and the economy.

Alta was recently hired to create a bike-pedestrian plan update for Rome and Floyd County, and also created an economic impact study focusing on the Silver Comet Trail in 2013.

Meadows said the $69,000 study is being funded through a grant provided by the Georgia Department of Transportation and managed through the regional commissions.

Interest in a possible trail connecting Cave Spring with the Silver Comet Trail was highlighted in a meeting last August.

Members of the town’s Downtown Development Authority presented their ideas about the trail to local State Transportation Board representative Roger Williams.

The Silver Comet is a 61.5-mile paved trail that runs from Smyrna to the Alabama state line west of Cedartown where it connects with the Chief Ladiga Trail.

Meadows emphasized that the design team is only looking at a trail spur between Cave Spring and Cedartown.

Source: Rome News

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