Category: better trails

City of Trails?

German City to Eliminate Roads Imagine a world without cars? If you’re having trouble with that, let’s scale it back to a city without cars. Hamburg, Germany has ambitious plans to replace roads with greenways and gradually eliminate the need for automobiles within 20 years. It’s already in my calendar to visit there when it’s …

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Why not use unemployed to build trails?

I know it sounds simplistic, but we can always use more trails and there are thousands of people unemployed, so why not utilize an underutilized work force? We are already paying unemployment benefits, so it wouldn’t cost much more than what we’re already paying. It just seems to make so much sense to employ those …

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