Great American Rail Trail

Decided to make a post on the Great American Rail Trail after seeing a repost of the Swiss Bike tunnel: https://imgur.com/gallery/W0tLCy9

The Rail to Trails Conservancy began in 1986 as the first organization to begin repurposing abandoned railways into viable multi-use trails in the U.S.

In 2019 RTC launched their grand plan of making the "Great American Rail-Trail, a fully connected 3,700+ mile route from Washington, D.C to Washington State.

Working with hundreds of partners across the country RTC has 56% of the trail completed.

This flow of this post is less than ideal, very slapdash, apologies.

More stats and context taken from a report the RTC made with Headwaters Economics:

https://headwaterseconomics.org/wp-content/uploads/HE-GRT-Economic-Potential-Briefing-Singles-LowRes.pdf

Potential positive economic impact, not the fake data-center bullsheeyt business.

Aww Kids come look at the treeeee

Leafer Peepers

Muddy waters (no relation)

With social cohesion at an all time low (and International Law breaking at an all time high) thought/hope bringing awareness to this might bring a little, itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, tiny amount of joy and optimism to Americans knowing that there is *SOMETHING* positive going on in these there United States of America that can hopefully make us a little more united and a lot less obese.

https://www.railstotrails.org/