| Re: Old rail routes and canals to be used
dennis lawson wrote:
> "Ken Marcet" <kcmarcet@hotpop.com> wrote in message
> news:38ob22F5ol10aU1@individual.net...
>> Interesting little bit. U.K. could convert some old rail routes and
>> canals into bike routes.
>> Makes me wonder how many unused rail routes are here in the U.S. that
>> could
>> be easily converted into bike routes.
>> http://www.shropshirestar.com/show_a....php?aID=30247
>
> There will be more bike routes than car routes in the UK by 2020,
> other sites you may be interested in
>
> http://www.transpenninetrail.org.uk/
> http://homepages.tesco.net/~c2c/
> http://www.c2c-guide.co.uk/
>
> The National Lottery is currently investing £20 Billion ($38 Billion)
> in building new off-road bike routes.
Wow. We'd be lucky to get a tenth that much nationally, and we're six times
your population and many more times the land area!
Matt O.
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