Bike Park On The Table At Tredyffrin Meeting Monday

TREDYFFRIN, PA — Plans for a bike pump park at Mill Road Park are expected to move forward at Monday night’s Tredyffrin Township supervisors’ meeting.

The supervisors are set to vote to apply to the state Financing Authority for a $250,000 grant to finance the project.

Mill Road Park, 1400 Mill Road, is a 55.9-acre tract that has baseball and soccer fields.

Arthur Zadrozny, a township resident in the Chesterbrook development, said Friday that he is working to get the grant application in by May 31 deadline.

He said Mill Road Park is the perfect place for the bike park, noting that it is close to the Chester Valley Trail and local trails.

Zadrozny complimented Dominick “Dom” Pecora, an eighth-grader at Valley Forge Middle School, and Ronan Lynch, a freshman at Conestoga High School, who prepared the initial proposal for the bike park.

To date, the group has raised $5,645 in a GoFundMe fundraiser for the first phase of the project.

Zadrozny said that anyone interested in having a bike park in the township can attend the meeting Monday night in the township building, 1100 Duportail Rd, Berwyn.

Pump parks are trending in suburban neighborhoods. They allow riders to use an up-and-down pumping motion to propel the bike forward instead of pedaling. The tracks have hilly dirt inclines covering about a half to 1-acre.

Correction: Ronan Lynch's name was incorrect in an earlier version.