03-04-2005, 04:31 AM
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#11 (permalink)
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> > In the USA we have the http://www.railtrails.org/ Trails to Rails
> > Conservancy Organization.
> > They have been working on putting in bike trials and paths all
over the
> US.
and there are canal towpath trails, too. The C&O Canal Trail in
Maryland was originally built, I think, by the Civilian Conservation
Corps during the Roosevelt administration, and has been popular ever
since, even during cycling's low point in the 1950s. I think the New
York State Barge Canal towpath was made into a bike path before 1900.
If it has been one ever since, it might be about as old as what I
thought was the USA's oldest bike path, alongside Ocean Ave, in
Brooklyn, NYC, built in 1895.
Jeremy Parker
London UK
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