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After many months of work, and valuable input from hundreds of people around the area, we are very proud to announce that we have completed the Capital District Trails Plan!
Click HERE to download a copy of the final plan. Thank you again to everyone who participated in our community meetings and draft plan open house to provide input and suggestions to make this effort a success. We look forward to seeing communities around the Capital District use this plan to help guide and implement their own connections as we work together. Thank you.
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The Draft Capital District Trails Plan has been released! You can download it here. Comments can be emailed to trails@cdtcmpo.org until October 15th. You can also download and view the information presented at the September 13th Open House fromthe project homepage.
 We have been working on developing a strategy to link together the various multi-use trails in Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer and Saratoga counties - a project called the Capital District Trails Plan. Many of you may have attended our planning workshops in each county last spring, and provided valuable input. We have since been working on developing this strategy, and would now like to invite you to attend our Public Open House to review the draft recommendations of that plan. Comments and suggestions gathered at this open house will be used to refine the strategy before it is finalized. Draft materials for review will include: proposed trail maps for Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer and Saratoga counties; Trails Management Best Practices guide; estimates of anticipated economic benefits as well as ideas for branding and marketing of our regional trail system. When: Thursday, September 13th, 2018 Between 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. Where: Albany Heritage Area Visitors Center, 25 Quackenbush Square, Albany, NY (MAP) Agenda: The Open House will be organized as an informal gallery of exhibits so that people can come and go as they please, there will be a more formal presentation of the materials during the event at approximately 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. If you are interested in attending the open house, we encourage you to visit the CDTC Facebook event page at www.facebook.com/pg/CapitalDistrictMPO/events/ to indicate your interest, so that we may have an idea how many people will attend. Members of the project team—including the CDTC and planning and engineering consultants—will be in attendance to discuss the vision plan and take questions. The team is eager to discuss the draft ideas and have an opportunity to collect comments or suggestions which can be used to refine and finalize the plan. Please feel free to share this info with others who are active recreational trail users or who may have an interest in local trail planning. Contact us at trails@cdtcmpo.org if you have any questions. We hope that you can attend. A copy of the Press Release can be downloaded from the link below. 
Thank you to everyone who participated in the online survey. We received over 330 responses. The survey is now closed, and we will be tabulating the results and post them here in the coming weeks.
We have completed hosting stakeholder meetings in Saratoga, Rensselaer, Albany and Schenectady counties. Thank you to everyone who attended! We obtained a lot of useful ideas and are currently reviewing all of the input to begin developing ideas for the Trail Plan. If you missed the meetings, we have provided a copy of one our presentations below.
NOTICE! The Schenectady Workshop has been rescheduled to FRIDAY, MARCH 9th at 10:30am.
Stakeholder meetings have been scheduled in each of the surrounding Capital District counties to discuss future trail connections that will be part of a larger regional network. Interested in future trail planning in your area? We hope that you can attend. (Please RSVP to mallen@behanplanning.com so we know how many people will be attending.) SARATOGA COUNTY, February 14th, 1:30 pm Saratoga County Offices, 50 W High Street, Ballston Spa RENSSELAER COUNTY, February 16th, 9:30 am East Greenbush Town Hall, 225 Columbia Turnpike, Rensselaer ALBANY COUNTY, February 27th, 1:30 pm Pine Bush Discovery Center, 195 New Karner Road, Albany SCHENECTADY COUNTY, March 9, 2016, 10:30 am NOTICE! The Schenectady Workshop has been rescheduled to FRIDAY, MARCH 9th at 10:30am. Schenectady County Public Library, 2400 Nott St E, Niskayuna
In order to help collect trail design input from as many users as possible, we have prepared an online wiki "Trail Maker" map for interested individuals to provide their ideas about where future trail connections should go. Have an idea for a new trail connection in your area? Want to be able to bike to work? Let us know where you think the new connections should be. You can find links to the interactive map on the home page. We hope you enjoy!
The Capital District Trails Plan project has just begun. We are excited to start working with the local communities to advance a vision for a regional trails network. The project team is just getting started, and we hope to have much to share with you in the coming months. Be sure to check back here for news and announcements of upcoming events, and help spread the word with your friends and family! Happy Holidays, ~ Capital District Transportation Committee & Project Team
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