Walking and cycling trails contribute to lower highway traffic and boost motorists safety through roads featuring shoulder trails. Trails connecting commercial residential and recreational regions offer users additional transportation alternatives. The accessibility of trails allows people from various income levels to change transportation modes from vehicles to other modes of transport that are non-motorized. The reduction of highway congestion resulting from the mode switching has had a significant effect on public expenditure for roadway infrastructure in the Coastal Georgia region. The shoulder bicycle lanes add approximately 3 to 5 feet to the width of the paved roadway surface. This additional surface area enhances motorists safety along the same road by reducing sideswipe motorcycle crashes, run-offs and head-ons.

The Coastal Georgia Greenway has significantly enhanced the value of nearby properties. Properties close to multi-purpose trails usually have a property value premium of about 5% to 10%. A substantial number of homeowners and realtors believe that the establishment of the Coastal Georgia Greenway trail has reduced the amount of time needed to sell a property and enhanced the value of the property tremendously.

The Coastal Georgia Greenway, the 150 miles Georgia part of the East Coast Greenway and its 200 miles of connector trails, offers users an excellent opportunity to exercise and explore the fantastic coastal Georgia habitat and environment. The water, equestrian, bicycle, and pedestrian trails linking Savannah and Saint Marys serve as highly valuable greenway resources for the State, as well as visitors and residents. Since 2015, Coastal Georgia Greenway offers a wide range of perks ranging from there less directly measured improvements in environmental preservation and cleanliness, social fabric, quality of life, and health to the more easily quantified perks in the form of increased values of nearby properties. The Coastal Georgia Greenway also offers its 6 host counties an economic package that has supported numerous jobs for the locals by injecting minions of dollars in the area.…

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Land and transportation uses have significant impacts on health care issues in America. A survey conducted by the National Highway Transportation found that the number of cars in every household is more than the number of drivers. People who live in sprawling suburbs have a tendency to drive, rather than cycle or walk to fulfil their fundamental transportation needs, and have a higher risk of suffering from hypertension. This dramatically outweighs residents in the compact or dense areas. Sedentary lifestyles are linked to more than 20% of deaths from critical chronic diseases. Other studies have shown that diet and activity patterns account for 14% of all deaths in America. When combined, these factors are a major leading cause of death in America. Walking and cycling are great activities that can help reduce the medical expenditures resulting from sedentary lifestyles. Also, regular cycling activities increase health-related benefits. For example, cycling thrice per week reduces systolic blood pressure by 9 points, while cycling on a daily basis lowers it by 13 points. Cycling for half an hour daily burns about 11.4 lbs in one year. A person who starts cycling at the age of 35 and circles for 60 miles per week could increase their life expectancy by two and a half years. In addition, an individual who participates in activities that develop endurance, flexibility, muscular strength, and balance is less prone to disability and injury and is more productive in the community and at work.

The Coastal Georgia Greenway trail regularly contributes to enhancing the social fabric and quality of life. By developing ways in which families and individuals can recreate together, trails promote community cohesion by promoting social relationships. Also, trails create an aesthetic value through increasing green space in regions where land-use issues are more often than not driven by commercial and residential development. Trails offer users a first-hand opportunity to grasp, appreciate and enjoy significant heritage values and themes. Of importance to the Coastal Georgia Greenway, is the fact that travellers are more interested in the education-oriented opportunities offered by the historical and cultural sites, which is one of the fastest-growing sectors of tourism. The coastal Georgia Greenway trail offers a window into America’s culture and history through linking various sites and making them easier to interpret into a broader context and making them easily accessible. This results in more frequent use and helps preserve sites for future generations by increasing appreciation and awareness among the current generation.

Environmentally, the Coastal Georgia greenway trails are an instrument of conservation and water and air quality management. As protected open areas, trails preserve essential natural habitats and landscapes. Trails regularly offer the much-needed links between natural areas and ecological communities. Walking and cycling are non-pollutant and do not require the use of fossil fuels and are, therefore, contributors to better air quality. Over many years, walking and cycling trips can save hundreds of millions and even billions in gallons of gas and decrease air pollution emissions significantly (not to mention avoiding a myriad of issues related to car insurance). This airborne pollution displacement takes place at the ground level, where most of us breathe. Also, the trips that attract walkers and cyclists 5 miles or less are often the same trips that are fuel inefficient and produce the highest emissions per mile. The Coastal Georgia Greenway trails improve water quality by offering natural buffer zones and protecting waterways from the pollution that occurs due to pesticides and fertilizer run-off. Reduction or improved control of this pollution improves the environmental circumstances of aquatic life by enhancing the water quality, which is one of the essential resources in the Coastal Georgia region.…

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Completed in 2015, the Coastal Georgia Greenway is one of the components that make up the East Coast Greenway. The East Coast Greenway is a system of pedestrian and bicycle trails that offers users a continuous 2600 miles stretching from Florida to Maine. Its Georgia component, the Coastal Georgia Greenway, has multi-purpose trails linking Savannah to Saint Mary’s. The Coastal Georgia Greenway comprises a 150-mile through-corridor linking an additional 200-mile network of water, equestrian, on-road, bicycle and pedestrian trails thereby creating a 350 regional recreational facilities system. It comprises 80% highways and 20% trails and offers numerous direct and indirect economic benefits to the neighbouring communities.

The Coastal Georgia Greenway was envisioned by Ms Jo Claire Hickson, who worked hard to bring the vision to life for almost two decades. The idea of the Coastal Georgia Greenway was to plug into the national trail that was a component of the East Coast Greenway Alliance. The Coastal Georgia Greenway offers a beautiful route passing through wonderful communities such as Savannah, Brunswick, as well as Saint Mary’s, and allows anyone using the trail to gain significant knowledge about the low country. In 2009, various parties allied to create the Coastal Georgia Greenway organization in an attempt to work with the local Georgia communities and raise private finances to advance the trail. The fantastic thing about the Coastal Georgia Greenway was that it was a community effort. Rather than build the trails themselves, they encouraged local communities to build them. One of the primary objectives of the Coastal Georgia Greenway project was to develop a safe area where individuals could be connected to the neighbouring communities, and enjoy outdoor activities. Once completed in 2015, the Coastal Georgia Greenway linked nine cities. In many ways, the Coastal Georgia Greenway afforded the members of the nearby communities a significant level of comfort and separated them from the traffic scene, giving them an opportunity to explore, exercise and have a lovely experience. The Coastal Georgia Greenway received a lot of support from nearby hospitals, which sponsored trails because of their many health benefits that its establishment would bring. Another primary funding source of the Coastal Georgia Greenway project was the Land and Water conservation Fund, which is a federal program designed to improve outdoor recreation and conserve nature in America.

During the establishment of the Coastal Georgia Greenway, one of the fundamental ideas that attracted investors and made the project viable in the Georgia community, was the many benefits that it was projected to create. True to that, the Coastal Georgia Greenway has offered significant direct and indirect economic benefits to host communities and users since its establishment in 2015. The Coastal Georgia Greenway’s contribution to society’s quality of life is a little hard to measure. The trail contributes to initiatives of economic development by increasing a recreational facility to the area’s rich portfolio of desirable features. Locals residing near the trail enjoy more easily quantifiable benefits since the Coastal Georgia Greenway has increased property values in the region. Benefits related to the environment, health, and transportation choice have economic benefits that are more closely linked to the reduction of costs. For instance, the health benefits of the Coastal Georgia Greenway used for recreation and exercise can significantly bring down the medical expenditures that accompany a sedentary lifestyle. The same can be said about the avoidance of cost on controlling pollution and road infrastructure following the increased use of the Coastal Georgia Greenway for transportation.…

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