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Residents Get to Debate Merits of the Proposed Merritt Park Trail

If built, it would run from the New York border to the Sikorsky Bridge in Stratford and would be a section of a longer greenway trail from Florida to Maine.

has , and one day it may also have a stop on the real life Merritt Parkway trail.

According to an article by the Connecticut Mirror, residents had an opportunity to speak for or against the proposal recently at a public hearing in Trumbull.

The article said the trail, which the Merritt Parkway Trail Alliance proposed 20 years ago, would also connect with the East Coast Greenway, a trail that would run from Florida to Maine.

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The 37.5 mile Merritt Parkway Trail would end at the Sikorsky Bridge over the Housatonic River here in Stratford.

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