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Officials look at options for joining 2 area trail systems

A pedestrian tunnel is being built under Atlanta Highway/Ga. 13 as part of Hall County’s Highlands to Islands trail system.

0515TRAIL3 — A pedestrian tunnel is being built under Atlanta Highway/Ga. 13 as part of Hall County’s Highlands to Islands trail system.

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Updated: May 14, 2017, 10:16 PM

Published: May 14, 2017, 10:18 PM

Gainesville is hoping to study how best to connect two major trail systems now separated by a major four-lane road, Queen City Parkway/Ga. 60. The Midtown Greenway ends at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard east of Queen City. And Highlands to Islands Trail’s Chicopee Section ends up at Palmour Drive west of the parkway.

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