Merritt Parkway Trails

The Merritt Parkway… Connecticut’s traffic gambit. I95 is slow, do you take the chance on crossing town to sit in the same traffic crammed in with one less lane? DO YOU?!!!

Apparently there was a push that culminated in 2004 around building trails that run along the Merritt Parkway. The original design of the Parkway left space to accommodate trails and that buffer space has been protected up until this point from lane expansion. Some towns embraced the idea; Stamford even offered to create a demonstrative section of the trail in the 1 mile stretch between High Ridge Rd. and Newfield Rd. Other towns were against it and the DOT never got behind the project.

I love the idea of utilizing the Merritt to create a new trail system through Connecticut. If there is enough room in between the road and private property on each side why not? The CT DOT remains uninterested and the Stamford Demonstrative Trail remains off the drawing board.