Plans For Pump/Skills Track In Tredyffrin Gaining Traction

TREDYFFRIN, PA — A plan to construct a Bike Skills/Pump track in Tredyffrin is gaining traction.

The township’s Park and Recreation Committee formed a subcommittee to explore a proposal to build a track at Mill Road Park on a 55.9-acre tract that has baseball and soccer fields.

Supervisor Sharon Humble informed the board of supervisors this week that students provided a presentation on the proposal for the skills track at a meeting last week in Wilson Farm Park.

Humble said the Mill Park is located near residential neighborhoods and would provide cyclists easy access to ride to the park.

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

Arthur Zadrozny, a township resident in the Chesterbrook development, is helping the teens with the project.

Pump tracks 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.

Plans for pump tracks are in the works at Phoenixville and Malvern boroughs.