On 14/09/15 02:23, John Eldredge wrote: > In the case of Nashville, Tennessee, an Interstate bypass, I-440, that > loops about one-third of the way around the city core, deliberately made > use of a no-longer-used railway right-of-way to reduce land purchase > costs. If anyone were to go back and map that railroad now, the entire > route would overlap the motorway.
One wonders if in the bigger scheme of things such as global warming and pollution if that was really the best way of saving money ;) In the UK rail usages has been growing and lines are being reinstated, or brand new lines built demolishing or 'blighting' housing stock, and in some cases those houses are being demolished where they were build on the original abandoned routes since that is required to restore the links with what does currently remain. http://www.stratford-herald.com/33894-could-rail-line-idea-be-back-on-track.html is a current item on my own pet 'abandoned railway' ... and the preserved railway is fast approaching from he south ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
