Originally Posted by
RazrSkutr
Rails to trails?
Replace one of the most energy-efficient means of long-distance transportation with a friggin bike path?!!
Replace one of the few options to do long-distance travel with bicycles with a strip of tarmac littered with roller-bladers and dog-walkers?
Are you serious?
What a completely negative, backward-looking and stupid idea.
I think you mean:
"Preserve a right of way that can easily be turned into rail again later with cheap asphalt."
Rail trails don't go over active lines, not in any case I've heard of yet. And, eventually, these inactive lines can become segmented private property again. Never again to be a street, bike trail, or rail.
I think you're overly angry about rail trails.