From Rails to Trails: The Making of America's Active Transportation Network

by Peter Harnik

Book Overview

If, as Wallace Stegner said, the national park is "the best idea we ever had," the rail-trail is certainly a close runner-up. Part transportation corridor, part park, the rail-trail has revolutionized the way America creates high-quality, car-free pathways for bicyclists, runners, walkers, equestrians, and more.

It was only a few decades after railroad barons had run roughshod over America's economy and politics that they began to shed nearly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496222067
• ISBN13: 9781496222060
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.7" x 8.9"