Wisconsin's "trail holy grail" has been to have a continuous bikeway across most of the state's southern beer-gut midsection, from Dodgeville on the west to Milwaukee on Lake Michigan. Madison sits at the hub, and with its path/trail system in place, you can ride this span completely on bikeways.... almost. The last section, just a few miles between the eastern fringes of Madison and the village of Cottage Grove, is still "vaporware". To the best of my knowledge, the rail corridor it's supposed to use hasn't served rail service in decades. It's been recognized as a missing link at least since I first came here in 1990. So this is fast becoming at least at 30-year "missing link"<br /><br />About 10 years ago, a young enthusiast cyclist was killed on one of the rural roads commonly used between these two points, by an inattentive driver. Made the news, and caused a buzz in the "community". But didn't push any buttons wrt. progress on this last link :shrug: .<br /><br /> And for those too young to have been a contemporary of Senator Dirksen, he said this when a billion dollars really amounted to something. As seen on a bumper sticker recently - "Trillion is the new Billion".