Newest Addition to Pigeon Creek Greenway Opens Today
By: Chris Veech
Updated: December 12, 2012
There is now more than 6.5 miles of bike trail connecting downtown Evansville and the north side. Mayor Lloyd Winnecke hosted a ribbon cutting today for the newest addition of the City's Greenway Passage. The ceremony officially marks the completion of the 3.5 miles of the Industrial Corridor, linking the Riverfront Corridor with the Mid-Levee Corridor from Sunrise Park to the Heidelbach Canoe Launch.
Mayor Winnecke says this will hopefully help rid the city of one of it's more unpopular titles.
"I think most everyone knows of Evansville's reputation for it's health," said Mayor Winnecke, "and anyway we can encourage people to get out and exercise, I think this is just one more means to do that."
Construction on this phase began in April and cost nearly $1.4 million. Plans to extend the passage through the Arts District to the Glenwood Learning Academy and eventually back to the Mid-Levee Corridor, for an inner-city loop of 14 miles are already underway.
