By the end of next year, maybe sooner, people will be able to walk from Homewood and Mountain Brook through Birmingham all the way to Irondale along Shades Creek Greenway.

“We are doing something that is going to be pretty transformational for the Eastwood and Crestline neighborhoods,” said Birmingham City Council member Hunter Williams.

The Birmingham City Council on Tuesday approved a contract for more than $547,000 that the city will pay to Freshwater Land Trust to oversee construction on the trail’s Birmingham section.

That adds to previous commitments by the city .

The trail will link the Irondale Furnace Trail in Mountain Brook eastward to Birmingham’s Flora Johnston Nature Preserve near Eastwood Mall at Irondale.

“We’re going to be able to connect the Lakeshore Trail all th

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