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Old 12-12-2010, 03:58 PM
 
Location: Grand Rapids Metro
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I knew we had a lot of them, but over 2400 miles?? Nice.

Michigan leads nation in rail-to-trail conversions | MLive.com
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Old 12-12-2010, 05:50 PM
 
Location: At the end of the road, where the trail begins.
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And I've walked, biked, and rollerbladed down many miles of those trails!

It's nice to see MI get recognition for something positive.
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Old 12-14-2010, 09:40 AM
 
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Ironic, isn't it, the success in rail-to-trail comes from improvement in vehicle infrastructure leading to rail's demise. In other words the more roads the more bike trails.
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Old 12-14-2010, 09:49 AM
 
Location: Grosse Ile Michigan
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There are really nice trails like this that run through South Lyon and New Hudson. It really made those towns nicer. they are very nice paved trails for biking walking jogging, strollers, etc.

Living downriver, trains blocking roads are kind of a fact of life and extremely annoying. Sometimes roads are closed for trains for half an hour or more (uaully only five to ten minutes). Sometimes they block several roads. If it did nto mean that the economy was failing, I would be really happy to see our train tracks turned into trails. That would be an awful lot of trails though. We have some roads with more than a half dozen sets of tracks in less than a mile.
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Old 06-16-2017, 06:38 AM
 
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
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And we are still making more!
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Old 06-16-2017, 10:49 AM
 
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Dayton Oh gets a lot of attention for rails to trails. One area versus a state? IDK, who is doing the measuring
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Old 06-18-2017, 07:09 AM
 
Location: Grand Rapids Metro
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Dayton Oh gets a lot of attention for rails to trails. One area versus a state? IDK, who is doing the measuring
I posted this thread back in 2010, someone must've bumped it.
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Old 06-22-2017, 11:37 AM
 
Location: Metro Detroit
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I posted this thread back in 2010, someone must've bumped it.
Well, since we're on the subject...
Detroit purchases 7.5 miles to build greenway loop

This is 7.6 acres of Detroit recently purchased for 7.5 miles of trains which will connect existing trains including the Riverwalk and Dequidre cut.
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Old 06-25-2017, 09:44 AM
 
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Definitely worth following their news. I think their endgame is to keep connecting trails through the country.

https://www.railstotrails.org/

- Their newsletter link.
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Old 03-30-2018, 10:00 AM
 
Location: Crowderado
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Old thread, I know, but the thread title caught my eye, as I sift through for information to guide me to my next home, in the great state of Michigan! The abundance of trails - rail trails, the Fred Meijer trails, etc. - are a major factor in choosing where to live. I'd love to live just off the Flat River Trail, somewhere in the Lowell area, for example.
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