Schuylkill Trail Extension Will Connect Phoenixville, Pottstown

Phoenixville and Pottstown will someday be connected by the Schuylkill River Trail.

Newly approved projects will connect Phoenixville to Mont Clare and Pottstown to Parker Ford, The Pottstown Mercury reports.

The Route 29 bridge over the Schuylkill River will be modified, the Mercury said. Costs are estimated at $1.3 million, and work will begin in 2015.

And a new, 9.8-mile section of trail will link the trailhead in East Pikeland to the Route 422 bridge over the river, the Mercury said. Costs are estimated at $8.4 million, and work will likely begin in 2017, the Mercury said.

Once the work is done, the Schulkill River Trail will stretch from Philadelphia to Reading.

Read more from The Pottstown Mercury here.