{"id":498,"date":"2011-07-12T10:41:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T14:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/?p=498"},"modified":"2011-07-12T10:42:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T14:42:36","slug":"update-on-the-greenway-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/12\/update-on-the-greenway-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on the Greenway Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-hCzYwYfkOGE\/TBmwcgGnctI\/AAAAAAAAAHs\/g8JnDJpKh90\/s800\/IMG_5973.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"End of the current Forsyth Big Creek Greenway at McFarland Parkway\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-hCzYwYfkOGE\/TBmwcgGnctI\/AAAAAAAAAHs\/g8JnDJpKh90\/s500\/IMG_5973.JPG\" alt=\"End of the current Forsyth Big Creek Greenway at McFarland Parkway\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">End of the current Forsyth Big Creek Greenway at McFarland Parkway<\/p><\/div>\n<p>ForsythNews.com just published <a title=\"Big Creek Greenway growing - ForsythNews.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forsythnews.com\/section\/1\/article\/9341\/\">an article<\/a> with some more details on plans to connect the Forsyth and Alpharetta segments of the Big Creek Greenway. The connection of the two trails, in addition to further expansion into Forsyth County, would create a continuous trail system spanning 35 miles from Roswell into Cumming.  The recent extension of the Alpharetta Big Creek Greenway to Marconi Drive brought the trails .85 miles closer to that goal.<\/p>\n<p>According to Tim Allen, Forsyth County assistant director of engineering, the construction could start in 2012 and be completed in spring of 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Big Creek Greenway growing - ForsythNews.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forsythnews.com\/section\/1\/article\/9341\/\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The connection of the two trails, in addition to further expansion into Forsyth County, would create a continuous trail system spanning 35 miles from Roswell into Cumming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,1],"tags":[23,56,6,105,103,67,18,5,15,104,54,9,49,7],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-trail-news","category-uncategorized","tag-alpharetta","tag-alpharetta-greenway","tag-big-creek-greenway","tag-connect-the-greenway","tag-connection","tag-construction","tag-forsyth","tag-forsyth-county","tag-forsyth-county-greenway","tag-greenway-connection","tag-marconi","tag-mcfarland","tag-plans","tag-trail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}