HCIA meets to discuss progress on trails agenda

It all began in 2007 when Headwaters Communities in Action (HCIA) identified five priorities vital to the development of the area’s trails system.

Now three years later, the HCIA Trails Working Group met at the Community Living Dufferin (CLD) building in East Garafraxa on Nov. 13, to gain a sense of the progress that’s been made.

“Some of the priorities have moved really well. They are really taking care of themselves,” explained Chris Broom, chair of the HCIA working trails group. “Do we need to look at other things? That is where we are right now — evaluating what our next set of priorities will be.”

Those original five priorities, including the creation of a link from Island Lake Conservation Area to Orangeville, a trail around that conservation area, a rail trail from Orangeville to Shelburne, developing cycling lanes in Dufferin County, as well as crafting a trailway from Island Lake to Terra Cotta, are beginning to take shape.

For a copy of the Ontario trails presentation to the committee e-mail Ontario trails - ontrails@gmail.com