help of grassroots organizations such as Conway Advocates for Bicycling, the city is slowly making his dream come true. The council recently approved the use of the city’s natural gas severance tax state turn-back money for the provision, development, operabeginning. The Chamber was created tion, and maintenance of alternative transportato recruit city’s which three includes higher bicytionhelp facilities andthe services, education institutions. Because an cle routes and lanes, pedestrian sidewalks, and educated mass transit.population and workforce are The tocity has adopted the growing League of critical recruiting jobs and American Bicyclists’ itaction plan forformaking a local economy, is important the Chamber to support education. It accomplishes this through three annual events: scholarship funding through Toad Suck Daze proceeds, recognizing student achievement at Academic Signing Day, and connecting education and the business community through the Teacher’s Fair.
Conway’s first off-road bicycle/walking About the Chamber trail, 1.2 miles long, was ConwayArkansas.org completed in 1998. Since then several new legs have been added to the trail system, for a total of three miles of paved trail along Tucker Creek. A threefourths-mile addition to the system, from Executing a Vision Gatling Park on Tyler Street to Prince Street, In April 2011, the city of Conway for the City is under construction, and the next phase, adopted Conway2025 as the “official Starting in 2009, the Avenue, Chamber took onin strategic vision for the city of Conway.” from Prince to College is already the role of coordinating and executing the planning stage. When these projects are In doing so, they joined a number of a strategicthe vision for the city Conway. completed, off-road trails willofbe over six other public and private organizations The end result was the Conway2025 miles long. that have pledged to partner in the plan. The plan was developed using sur- execution of the plan. veys and personal input from more than The plan paints a picture of Conway at 1,500 area residents. The Chamber its best at our next quarter-century mark. and its staff facilitated more than 50 It is a promise of continued growth and community meetings in order to come a quality of life that stands out positively up with 132 goals to be accomplished in Arkansas and beyond. by the year 2025.
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The city has adopted the League of American Bicyclists’ action plan for making the city bicycle friendly.
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