Bourne Rail Trail

Bourne town leaders are waiting for word from the Healey administration on whether the state will allow railroad tracks to be removed for the proposed Bourne Rail Trail.

The proposed Bourne Rail Trail has received an offer of $20 million in federal stimulus money from the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority. That’s nearly enough to build the entire trail, according to the Friends of the Bourne Rail Trail — but only if the trail is built to a less expensive design than planned, with the trail replacing the railroad tracks instead of running alongside them.