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A Small but Worthy Step

For weeks now I have read letters condemning the Shoreline Greenway Trail (SGT) project. Let me add a contrary vote. It is amazing and a wonder that this intelligent community, at this time when change is the dictum, would voice such an opposition to a project that has life’s benefits as its base. This project is not based on monetary gain. It is an upscale effort to promote health and long life.

I am 86 and would love to use this trail even now. I still can walk and, in the past, have completed 10 marathons in my youth. Perhaps I’m naive, but I consider that my grateful longevity is to some degree due to my dedication to exercise.

Now suppose that the town decided to build sidewalks over the same area now proposed by SGT to allow access to our citizens, Mom with the baby carriage, old men with canes, etc.. This, of course, would be OK—and permitted by the Town. But call it a “trail” and the pundits react.

I think it a shame that this worthy effort (seen in many other upscale communities) has so many in opposition. The SGT is a small but worthy step forward, not backward.

Rod Latta

Guilford