Here are three noteworthy, though (semi) old posts from RPUS.
1. A post, Zack needs to ride a bike, about how if you live three miles from work, maybe you don't need a new bus line.
2. This post, Trains, light-rail co-exists with bike trails in Seattle , with a good photo of the Elliott Bay Trail in Seattle (I once looked very hard for a photo of a rail with a trail) dispels the myth that trails need to be 25 feet from railroads. When I was in Seattle my friend, an architect, pointed the trail out to me and I said, "Oh, I'd like to check it out." She looked at me like I was weird and took me to the library instead.
3. Green Cruise, Ferndale, Michigan about a counter-cruise - to the classic car "dream cruise" - which promotes alternate mobility.
There must be plenty of trails that border working rail lines. One extends east from Newark Ohio. For a photo see http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/journal/page/?o=lt&page_id=7522&v=26
A second would be the Maryland extension of the Allegheny Highlands trail from Frostburg to (evenutally) Cumberland.
Posted by: John Pickett | September 18, 2006 at 10:14 AM
rails to trails is an awesome project
the DC area has done well with what little it has done
and
could do well to do more
but
I am not sure how much unused rail remains in the district
Posted by: gwadzilla | September 18, 2006 at 01:36 PM