Re: Gas prices knock bicycle sales, repairs into higher gear

On Tue, 13 May 2008 17:35:27 +0000, Stephen Harding wrote:

> max wrote:
> 
>> I'm thinkin that the law of unintended consequences might just find us
>> watching (for example) our beloved Illinois Prairie Path, Fox River
>> Trail and Great Western trail and Virgil Gilman trail disappear under
>> the ballast of a light rail line in oh... twenty years or less.
>> 
>> I'm just sayin.
> 
> But technically, that's what the proclaimed purpose of "rail banking" as
> promoted by Rails-to-Trails groups.  Save these rights of way for future
> use when maglev of whatever reoccupies them.  In the meantime, they
become
> public recreational facilities.
> 
> Personally, I don't think they'll ever get converted back.  We'll be
> driving around in our personal hydrogen powered vehicles before we have
to
> choose re-creating a passenger rail network.

I doubt the hydrogen dream will ever be realized, at least in our
lifetime.  But just try to take those trails away once people are used to
them.

Matt O.