A federal grant recently was awarded to establish a bicycle and walking trail along Route 66 between Sherman and Williamsville in Illinois, according to the Springfield State Journal-Register.
Most of the story is behind the newspaper’s pay wall. However, the brief online edition reported that a grant of $269,000 recently was awarded to develop an engineering plan for the path.
The proposed trail is about 4 1/2 miles and would be considered a multi-use trail for bikers and walkers. “This trail could be a component of the Route 66 Trail, which connects Chatham and Springfield and Sherman,” said Williamsville village engineer Kevin Kuhn.
That adds to a bicycle trail that will be built between Towanda to Normal, announced a few months ago. Between those two things, existing trails in Madison County, and a concept plan by the Illinois Route 66 Bicycle Trail executive committee, the Mother Road in Illinois is developing rapidly on the bicycle front.