MLive: Texas Township to add to trailway

Texas Township is moving forward with plans for a Texas Drive trailway with an amendment that adds two sidepaths, reports MLive. The township board recently voted unanimously to add the sidepaths, which are required for the township to receive a $300,000 Michigan Department of Transportation grant toward the trailway. Township Superintendent Julie VanderWiere said that, although the township is not guaranteed the grant yet, she was told it absolutely would not be granted if the sidepaths were not added.

 

The trail will start at the Al Sabo Land Preserve, run through the preserve, come out to and across Texas Drive along a Consumers Energy easement, then follow that easement out to 12th Street, where it will head north to the roundabout at Milham Avenue. One sidepath will connect the trail where it emerges onto Texas Drive with Annandale Drive. The other will connect the trail on 12th Street with the end of a sidewalk slightly north of 12th Street Elementary. VanderWiere said MDOT wants the sidepaths in order to improve the trail’s connectivity with neighborhoods and schools.

 

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