| Re: Old rail routes and canals to be used
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 18:11:30 -0500, "Matt O'Toole" <matt@deltanet.com> wrote:
>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!
I've got trailheads for about 200 miles of paved and unpaved bike trail within
20 miles of me. Probably another few hundred miles within 50 miles of me. That's
in Tampa. Where ever do you live that you've got such a pessimistic outlook on
the subject?
Ron
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