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Progress, Baby Steps On Goderich To Guelph Rail Trail

Members of the Goderich to Guelph Rail Trail updated Huron County Council on their progress this week as well as presented four recommendations to council.

Spokesperson Cindy Fisher told councillors the committee has been working for about a year to resolve outstanding issues and there is still some opposition to the trail but believes they are making progress.

She also pointed out are working very well in other parts of the province and there's no reason they can't in Huron County.

"Rail trails work well in other areas of the province, we know there are some best practices out there that we can also adopt and in fact the east end of the G2G proposal in Wellington and Waterloo Region has been a working functional trail, the Kissing Bridge Trail, since the 90s," says Fisher.

The four recommendations were that the county appoint two Councillors to attend the open houses at the end of this month, to confirm council's support for signing the lease for the trail at some point in the future, the county appoint a staff member to sit on the G2G board and that council ask G2G Inc to bring back a work plan and costing to county council no later than November of 2016 and all of those recommendations were approved.

The open houses are from 7pm until 9pm at the Perth East Recreation Centre in Milverton and at the Blyth Recreation Centre on November 28 from 2pm until 4pm in the afternoon.

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