A coast-to-coast bicycle and pedestrian path that a nonprofit group is pushing to complete would stretch about 3,700 miles, across a dozen states, and incorporate about 130 existing segments of trail.
The route would run between Washington, D.C. and Washington state, based on a route plan the group revealed on Wednesday. The biggest gaps along it are currently in Wyoming, where only about eight of 508 miles of proposed trail exist today. How much the pathway could ultimately cost and where exactly all the money would come from to pay for it are still open questions. And the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, the group advocating for the trail, acknowledges that it could take decades to fully complete. But conservancy staff members maintain that the “Great American Rail-Trail” is a feasible project and emphasize that about half of the proposed route is already built. https://www.routefifty.com/infrastructure/2019/05/rails-to-trails-cross-country-coast-to-coast-bicycle-trail/156862/ -- a Andy Bach, afb...@gmail.com 608 658-1890 cell 608 261-5738 wk _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list Bikies@lists.danenet.org http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
