Cyclist travels 150 miles for groundbreaking ceremony

By TERESA ANN BOECKEL and PAUL KUEHNEL - Daily Record/Sunday News

George Kennett of St. Mary's County, Md. traveled 150 miles Monday to attend a groundbreaking ceremony for another phase of the Northern Extension of the Heritage Rail Trail County Park.
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Within a few years, riders should be able to travel roughly 45 miles from Ashland, Md. to John Rudy County Park within a day, said Carl Knoch, chairman of the York County Rail Trail Authority.

"It'll be great," Kennett said. "I can take a whole day almost if I want just to bike and not worry about getting run over by a car..."

The state Department of Transportation widened a sidewalk on the south side of the Route 30 bridge during a recent rehabilitation project. That sidewalk, which was completed at no cost to the county or the rail trail authority, will link the trail, Knoch said.
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"If there wasn't a York Heritage Rail Trail here, I would not come up here and spend my tourism dollars staying overnight in motels and going to restaurants ... cause I'd go somewhere else where there was a rail trail," he said.
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