West Windsor council agrees to back Green Acres grant application for Moses Tatami Trail

Friends of West Windsor Open Space presented a plan to build the Moses Tatami Trail and won township approval to apply for a Green Acres grant and for the township to provide up to a 50% match if the grant is awarded. The trail would run roughly a mile from Pen Lisle Road to the Duck Pond Run pump station along an existing sewer corridor and would include crushed-stone surfacing, an Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant replacement of a small bridge over Duck Pond Run, and short boardwalk sections where the ground is wet.

The presentation was delivered by Michael Schuit, acting president of Friends of West Windsor Open Space, who described the route and said the corridor largely runs over township-owned land and an existing sewer line. "The trail is gonna be between Pen Lisle Road and the Duck Pond Run pump house... in total, the trail is be close to a mile in length," Schuit said during the January 27 council meeting. Jerry Foster of the West Windsor Bicycle and Pedestrian Alliance and other volunteers provided cost estimates and noted the project aligns…