This is being discussed with the municipalities and the public officials. The potential loop we have looked at provides various connections whether it’s in areas where service roads are removed and it is a standalone shared use path. If it’s in conjunction with a stretch of service road that needs to be maintained and those would be accommodated on the shoulder. The stretches up at the north end where it would be able to use existing sidewalk that’s currently out there.
So not that it’s going to be a continuous shared-use path for the entire stretch but multiple forms of connections that create the full 4-mile loop that runs down from Highland Avenue at the south end and loop up along those existing service roads up to the 413 Pine Street connections with the proposed sidewalk that we have up there.
We are still in the initial stages as far as gathering feedback and was just an idea, bikes and pedestrians and multimodal is a hot topic these days and trying to provide some of those additional connections to the local communities is something we were putting out there as an option to discuss with the municipalities. Not that it is set in stone, and it could happen for the entirety or could be one or none of the municipalities.
Further studies have not been put out to date to get any sort of commitments from the municipalities affected by it. We have referenced the Bucks County Bicycle and Pedestrian master plan that was previously created just to look at some concepts where previous surveys had indicated potentials for bike paths. We are using other references and studies as a basis for the concept.