Mayor Lloyd Winnecke announces the City of Evansville, Department of Parks &
Recreation has received $1,350,000 for the Greenway Passage – Garvin/Governor Stringtown Bike
Lane project. The grant is from Congested Mitigation Air Quality funds from the Federal Highway
Administration. The funds will be to install bike lanes south on Stringtown Road from Pigeon Creek and
connect with Garvin Street and Governor Street to Sweetser Boulevard.
“The Greenway Passage will become a new transportation route for citizens to utilize to travel to work
and for recreation,†Mayor Winnecke said. “The Garvin/Governor Stringtown Bike Lanes will be a new
artery for people to utilize their bikes and leave their vehicles at home, thereby reducing pollution and
improving our air quality.â€
The Garvin/Governor Stringtown Bike Lanes is one of five different new projects being design. The plan
is to complete a four-teen (14) mile loop within the city and another eight (8) miles of trail to extend to
the Angel Mounds State Historic Site. The Garvin/Governor Stringtown Bike Lanes will be designed for
construction in 2013 and planned to be completed in 2014.
