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Minneapolis was very lucky: they inherited a large number of extremely high quality freight rail right-of-ways as the industry moved out of the city center. The
by squeed 14y ago
Minneapolis was very lucky: they inherited a large number of extremely high quality freight rail right-of-ways as the industry moved out of the city center. These are perfect for conversion in to bike paths: few hills, and routed to minimize grade crossings (and hence traffic lights). I wish they were everywhere, but building bike routes of this quality in other cities will be much harder.
Denmark seems to have built the "superhighway" from scratch, which is pretty cool. It also seems to have only cost $1.5 million. Since the average freeway costs about $1 million per mile, WHY DON'T WE HAVE MORE BIKEWAYS!?
sorry, lost my composure there.
- excuse-me 14y agoA freeway costs $1M/mi in the middle of nowhere it costs $30-50M/mi in an urban area and $5-6Bn/mi in Boston!
- guynamedloren 14y agoSo we're probably better off waiting for a 1/4 mile highway contract than trying to build the next Instagram.
- js2 14y agoThis will be awesome if it's ever completed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Coast_Greenway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Coast_Greenway The East Coast Greenway, or ECG, is a project to create a nearly 3,000-mile (4,800 km) urban path linking the major cities of the Atlantic coast of the United States, from Calais, Maine, to Key West, Florida, for non-motorized human transportation. I can attest that the part near Raleigh, NC is very nice.