Savannah Morning News columnist K.W. Oxnard has recently returned from vacation and in today’s paper she shares some of the good ideas she saw in other cities. Among them, a series of connected greenspaces:

Unlike Savannah, New York has spent the last 20 years creating a greenbelt through all five boroughs, patching together individual parks with stretches of waterfront to make open space available to everyone.

Oxnard should be pleased to learn that people from Savannah and other coastal Georgia communities are working to create an even larger project than the one she describes. It “will connect South Carolina to Florida through Georgia’s six coastal counties. This alternative transportation network will link the towns, attractions, recreational sites, historic and cultural sites, waterways and natural habitats of the coast.”

It’s called the the Coastal Georgia Greenway. Last Wednesday night, folks from all over coastal Georgia met in Midway to form steering committees for each county and discuss how to move the greenway forward. While the project has been in the works for a number of years, there’s now growing interest in the transportation, conservation, recreation, fitness and financial benefits the Coastal Georgia Greenway will provide.

I encourage Oxnard — and anyone else who would has seen similar facilities in other places — to get involved now and make it a reality here.