A video on how Greenville county, an area of the US not known for its bikeability or walkability, built one of the country's most successful bike trails, with over 2 million users yearly, on a...
A video on how Greenville county, an area of the US not known for its bikeability or walkability, built one of the country's most successful bike trails, with over 2 million users yearly, on a budget of almost nothing
Yeah this is near me! It's amazing what they're doing with it. I don't live close enough to ride it all the time, but to the end and back is a good 20 miles so with some planning it's a nice day...
Yeah this is near me! It's amazing what they're doing with it. I don't live close enough to ride it all the time, but to the end and back is a good 20 miles so with some planning it's a nice day trip.
I'm begging and pleading with our board to copy these guys but... budgets are hard when no one wants to pay taxes.
We have something similar to this in my city. It's funny because there are clearly parts where the original rail had to divert for some reason and the trail follows, but the humans don't. I...
We have something similar to this in my city. It's funny because there are clearly parts where the original rail had to divert for some reason and the trail follows, but the humans don't. I believe this is called a "desire path" and there's several along the trail.
Anyway, I run and bike on it almost daily throughout the warmer seasons. The city section is only about 11.5km long but just 500m on some rural roads from the northern terminus will connect you to a provincial park and then the Trans Canada Trail. On the southern end, you're also just a few hundred meters on busier, albeit mostly residential roads and then you're connected to several city parks with a short journey into the downtown core.
Urban land reclamation is a fantastic thing and more cities should look into it when feasible. We also have several landfills that have been sealed and buried and turned into lovely parks. While we do have our sprawl issues, at least some of our space is being reused and repurposed into something for the people and not another development of cookie cutter cardboard houses.
A video on how Greenville county, an area of the US not known for its bikeability or walkability, built one of the country's most successful bike trails, with over 2 million users yearly, on a budget of almost nothing
Yeah this is near me! It's amazing what they're doing with it. I don't live close enough to ride it all the time, but to the end and back is a good 20 miles so with some planning it's a nice day trip.
I'm begging and pleading with our board to copy these guys but... budgets are hard when no one wants to pay taxes.
We have something similar to this in my city. It's funny because there are clearly parts where the original rail had to divert for some reason and the trail follows, but the humans don't. I believe this is called a "desire path" and there's several along the trail.
Anyway, I run and bike on it almost daily throughout the warmer seasons. The city section is only about 11.5km long but just 500m on some rural roads from the northern terminus will connect you to a provincial park and then the Trans Canada Trail. On the southern end, you're also just a few hundred meters on busier, albeit mostly residential roads and then you're connected to several city parks with a short journey into the downtown core.
Urban land reclamation is a fantastic thing and more cities should look into it when feasible. We also have several landfills that have been sealed and buried and turned into lovely parks. While we do have our sprawl issues, at least some of our space is being reused and repurposed into something for the people and not another development of cookie cutter cardboard houses.