A new segment of the Rhode Island Avenue Trolley Trail has opened in the Berwyn neighborhood in College Park, after years of negotiation with a neighboring homeowner.

The 40-foot stretch of trail is not much, lengthwise, but it solves a problem for trail users, who had to go around the missing segment for the past 20 years.

College Park Mayor Patrick Wojahn said the city signed a legal settlement with the property owner that allowed it to complete and pave the trail segment, and a virtual ribbon-cutting was held earlier this month.

This portion of the Trolley Trail is also near the city’s edible permaculture garden, which is between Greenbelt Road and Tecumseh Street.

Maintained by the Committee for a Better Environment, the garden includes blueberry, bayberry, Asian pear, semi-dwarf apple, red currant, Nanking bush cherry and pawpaw trees and the public is free to pick and eat.

The city plans to extend the garden to the south in the future.