The Downriver Linked Greenways Initiative (DLGI) began in 1999 as a result of the Downriver Summit, hosted by Congressman John D. Dingell. It is a community-driven regional effort to coordinate non-motorize transportation in the Downriver area. The Downriver communities recognize the importance and need for the improvement of issues surrounding the quality of life of Downriver residents, employees and visitors by connecting communities to one another and to the larger Southeast Michigan Region.
Recent Announcements
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Groundbreaking Event May 6, 2013
About 75 Flat Rock officials, organization representatives and community members gathered Monday at Huroc Park to celebrate the groundbreaking for the final one-mile stretch of bike path being constructed by the Downriver Linked Greenways Initiative. The groundbreaking commemorates the final part of the 24-mile trail connecting Belleville Lake to the shores of Lake Erie through the Oakwoods Metropark. Co-chair Anita Twardesky emceed the hourlong event.
Introducing guest speakers at Monday’s groundbreaking event at Huroc Park is Anita Twardesky, co-chair of the Downriver Linked Greenways Initiative, one of the organizations responsible for the creation of the trail system. The one-mile trail being constructed this spring and summer is the final piece of a 24-mile ...
Posted May 9, 2013, 8:42 AM by Dr Web Builder
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30-mile greenway moves closer to completion
FLAT ROCK, Mich. (AP) - A 30-mile greenway for bicycle riders, walkers and runners in southeast Michigan is moving closer to completion.
The Downriver Linked Greenways Initiative says a ribbon-cutting is planned for late September on the Flat Rock-Oakwood Connector Trail.
The mile-long trail is the final piece of a 30-mile east-west greenway connecting Oakwoods Metropark and Lake Erie Metropark. A groundbreaking ceremony for the Flat Rock-Oakwood Connector Trail took place Monday afternoon at Huroc Park in Flat Rock.
“The completion of this trail after more than a decade of hard work will now represent the largest greenways link of two Metroparks in the region,” Anita Twardesky, co-chairwoman of the Downriver Linked Greenways ...
Posted May 7, 2013, 5:22 AM by Greenways Webmaster
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Wyandotte Businesswoman Honored as 'True Champion of Downriver'
by Jason AlleyAnita Twardesky, the marketing and community outreach manager at Wyandotte's Riverside Kayak Connection, was honored Thursday by the Southern Wayne County Regional Chamber.Twardesky, who also co-manages the Downriver Linked Greenways Initiative, received the chamber's Image Award at the group's annual member tribute held at the Downriver Italian-American Hall in Wyandotte. The Image Award "recognizes an individual or a business that actively promotes a positive image of Southern Wayne County to both the internal and external public.""Anita is a true champion of Downriver wherever she goes, speaking at conference across the state and nation and working to bring conferences and meetings to experience the natural and cultural assets of Downriver," the ...
Posted Jan 11, 2013, 5:24 AM by Greenways Webmaster
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Living the wildlife: Patch of shoreline becomes 'crown jewel' of refuge
By Gary AnglebrandtThe downriver shoreline of the Detroit River contains 5,763 acres of federally protected wetlands and river banks under the name of the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge.But if it weren't for a place called Humbug Marsh, supporters say the area would have been just like any other housing development in Southeast Michigan. A group called Made in Detroit Inc. proposed in the 1990s to build a mixed-use development that would have included 300 homes and a golf course on land it bought in Trenton and Gibraltar. The plan failed when it ran afoul of environmentalists, federal agencies and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The problem was the 410-acre area called ...
Posted May 9, 2013, 8:58 AM by Dr Web Builder
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National expert says city’s walkability good, bad and needs redesign
From: The News Herald, "The Voice of Downriver" By: Staff Writer J. Patrick PepperTRENTON — Pedestrian-friendliness was the center of inquiry Thursday, when two of the city’s key commercial districts were audited for how accommodating they are to walkers.The audits, which were essentially walking tours, focused on the areas around City Hall and Elizabeth Park and the heavily trafficked West Road corridor.City officials and representative from regional and state transportation agencies were among those led by Dan Burden, a national expert on walkable communities.With the Washington state-based Walkable and Livable Communities Institute as his launching pad, Burden has spent more than 25 years traveling the country evangelizing about the benefits of pedestrian-friendly design ...
Posted Jan 11, 2013, 5:26 AM by Greenways Webmaster
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