Success Stories Page 9

Illinois' Constitution Trail - a Backbone of Thriving Communities

Posted 10/03/13 by Garry Little in America's Trails, Success Stories | Tagged with Illinois, Local Organizing, Trail Communities

For almost 25 years the Town of Normal and the City of Bloomington have been working together to build a linear park treasured by the community that provides residents and visitors with a variety of terrains and experiences. Now a connected web of trail weaving in and throughout "Blo-No," the Constitution Trail is known and loved as one of Illinois' most important trail systems.

Spotlight on the Prairie State - 10 Great Things Happening in Illinois

Posted 10/01/13 by Jake Lynch in America's Trails, Success Stories | Tagged with Best Of, Trail Communities

Straight Outta L.A., the Locals Building the Bike Boom

Posted 09/24/13 by Barry Bergman in Success Stories | Tagged with California, Local Organizing, Urban Pathways

Los Angeles is really surprising a lot of folks lately, with tons of great energy for biking and walking initiatives emerging from a sprawling city usually known for being very car-centric.

San Jose Knows The Way - Trail Counts Reveal Booming Bike Commute Pattern

Posted 09/10/13 by Barry Bergman in Trail Use, Success Stories | Tagged with California, Trail Communities

Yves Zsutty is a great example of how the right person in the right job can have a huge impact on an entire city's transportation landscape.

California - 10 Great Things Happening in the Golden State

Posted 08/29/13 by Jake Lynch in America's Trails, Success Stories | Tagged with Best Of, California

California. It sure is a unique bird. That is doubly true when it comes to trails and active transportation planning. A massive space populated with a mixture of booming metropolises, sprawling suburbs, and sparse rural areas, the Golden State's budgetary position of late has forced locals to be creative, and determined, when it comes to building trails and safe places for people to bike and walk.

Tennessee's Mountain Goat - the Little Trail Project that Could

Posted 08/07/13 by Jake Lynch in Building Trails, Success Stories | Tagged with Heritage and Restoration, Overcoming Opposition, State and Federal Programs, Tennessee

Ever since trains on the Mountain Goat Railroad stopped running in 1981, the people of the Cumberland Plateau in Middle Tennessee have wondered whether there was a way to turn this disused corridor into the asset and vibrant avenue it once was.

10 Great Things Happening in Tennessee

Posted 08/01/13 by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy in Success Stories | Tagged with Best Of, Tennessee

To kick off our month long focus on what’s happening in Tennessee, trails-wise, here’s just a few of the good things we’ve seen lately.

In Massachusetts, Trails Top List of What Local Residents Want

Posted 07/18/13 by Carl Knoch in Success Stories | Tagged with Demand for Trails, Massachusetts, Trail Communities

For many of the early years of the rail-trail movement, supporters of trail development often had to work pretty hard as salespeople of sorts - convincing a skeptical community that if they would build a trail people would use it and love it and the local area would benefit in a myriad of ways. Back in the days when there wasn't the data and compiled experiential evidence, the promises of these benefits had to be taken on faith, which made the task all that harder for those rail-trail advocates.

America's Next Gen of Trail Cities - Not Where You Expected

Posted 07/10/13 by Eric Oberg in Success Stories | Tagged with Demand for Trails, Walkability and Bikeability

The great thing about what we're seeing with rail-trail development at the moment is that it's ignoring all the preconceived notions of what we think we know about American cities.

10 Great Things: Tennessee

Posted 07/09/13 by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy in Success Stories | Tagged with Best Of, Tennessee, Walkability and Bikeability

It may come as news to some that over the past few years Tennessee has been steadily rising up the ranks of America's bike friendly states.

New York Builds On Its Assets by Turning Trails into Trail Systems

Posted 07/08/13 by Carl Knoch in Building Trails, Success Stories | Tagged with Connected Systems, New York, Trail Communities

Already blessed with a number of terrific individual destination rail-trails, the mid-Hudson Valley area of New York is working to enhance the value of those trails by connecting them to each other.

Virginia Uses Transportation Alternatives to Make the Most of Railroad Riches

Posted 06/27/13 by Marianne Wesley Fowler in Policy, Success Stories | Tagged with Heritage and Restoration, State and Federal Programs, Virginia

Geography and history gave the state of Virginia an abundance of railroad lines, many of which have fallen into disuse as the patterns of industry through the Appalachian Mountain region changed so much in the last century.