The Buffalo Valley Rail Trail Committee invites the public to attend a meeting about the rail trail on March 17, from 7 to 8:30pm, in the Community Room at the Barnes and Noble Bookstore. 

Discussion will cover the scope of the Phase II grant, which includes components in Lewisburg Borough, East Buffalo Township and Buffalo Township.  In the Borough, the project consists of completing design and construction of a trail segment in the vicinity of Danny Green Field and the northern portion of Hufnagle Park.  The site runs along the railroad right of way from 8^th Street to 5^th Street, with an extension adjacent to the North Shore railroad line south to Market Street.  The current grant also includes several components in East Buffalo Township as well as design and construction of a new trailhead at Vicksburg in Buffalo Township.

In addition, Bucknell University Management Innovation and Design students who are working on a complementary speculative park design project for the area between the existing municipal parking lots and the new trail segment in the Borough will be present and interested in getting input from the community at large for their project.

The Buffalo Valley Rail Trail (BVRT) is a project of the Buffalo Valley Recreation Authority (BVRA, formerly LARA).  BVRA has been working to extend the trail into Lewisburg Borough, in cooperation with Union County, Lewisburg Borough, East Buffalo Township officials and their working committees.

The grant project follows on last year’s work which completed preliminary engineering for the part of the project which is now moving toward construction in the next year or two, conceptual design for St John St and the RR bridge, neither of which are included in the current project, and conceptual design of the Rt 15 crossing, which will eventually move to preliminary engineering during the current project, though on a more extended timeline.

The current project funding combines DCNR grant funds and PennDOT-administered Federal Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) funds

For the Final Engineering Design project running from 8^th St to 5^th St and down to Market St, the engineering design team from Larson Design Group is working with previously gathered input, designs, and data and collaborating with the Rail Trail Design Subcommittee.  Community members interested in participating on the Subcommittee would be welcome.  Expressions of interest as well as any other input and comments can always be submitted to Katie Davis, BVRA Executive Director, at 570-524-4774 or director@bvrec.org.