Sudbury Warns: 'Too Dangerous' To Use Bruce Freeman Corridor Right Now

SUDBURY, MA — An informal walking trail through Sudbury is off-limits to locals as construction proceeds on the new Bruce Freeman Rail Trail section.

The former rail corridor that runs north-south parallel to Union Avenue and Concord Road is being worked on to complete a new stretch of the trail, and that means it's now potentially dangerous for regular users, the town said recently.

"This is a friendly reminder that since we are now into active construction on the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail, people should NOT be accessing the rail corridor or actively using it. It is simply too dangerous and, at a minimum, we do not want people traversing an active construction site and getting in the way of the workers and/or their machinery. As such, we ask that people avoid walking on and crossing the rail corridor until the rail trail construction project is completed," the town said in a March 9 bulletin.

Once complete, the first BFRT section in Sudbury will stretch some 4-1/2 miles from the Concord town line south nearly to Route 20. A second phase of the trail will someday carry the trail from near Route 20 into Framingham.

The Bruce Freeman Rail Trail — named for a former Chelmsford state lawmaker who was a trail advocate — is a larger rail trail project that, when complete, will span Lowell to Framingham. About 15 miles of the trail has been completed from the Lowell-Chelmsford line to Concord.