from the South Shore Trail's Jennifer Road trailhead to Somerville Road; and later that same year, 2,500 feet of trail was built from the north end of the existing section to Bestgate Road at Commerce Park Drive. Meanwhile, the main portion of the trail along the railroad route suffered continued delays. Though the trail got $800,000 in the 2005 federal highway bill, there was no construction. In 2010 trail designers decided to reroute the trail in the Millersville area because they were concerned that paving over portions of nontidal wetlands would prove to be too expensive and that the permitting process would take too long. This redesign resulted in another delay in the slow-moving project. In the summer of 2012, the county spent more than $200,000 to buy land along the new planned route. At the time, the start of construction, which had been promised many times in the prior 22 years, was scheduled for July 1, 2013. However, it wasn't until 2015 that the state provided the $990,000 needed to design and construct the first phase between Hansel Drive and Waterbury Road. In 2017, the logjam broke. Construction of Phase I of the trail, the section from Hansel Drive to Waterbury Road, for which ground was originally broken in 1990, officially began in October 2017 In 2018, County Executive Steve Schuh announced a $9.4 million plan to complete the South Shore Trail to Odenton. The money would be used to acquire still more property, complete detailed designs and construct the paved multi-use trail. By that time, construction had been broken into five phases: Phase I (Waterbury to Maryland Route 3, currently open) Phase II (MD 3 to Odenton, utilizing the railroad bed and includes crossing of MD 3) Phase III (Bestgate Road to Eisenhower Golf Course, along southern end of Generals Highway) Phase IV (Eisenhower Golf Course to Waterbury Road, along northern end of Generals Highway and includes crossing of Interstate 97) Phase V (Bestgate Road to City of Annapolis, currently open. Plans exist to expand this phase to connecting the South Shore Trail and the Poplar Trail.) By this time, Phase V was complete and Phase I was underway. Phase I was completed in 2019 with a ribbon cutting on May 13, 2019. Description The trail currently exists in two sections: one in Parole, Maryland between Bestgate Road and Jennifer Road, and another between Hansel Drive in Millersville,