On Monday, 21 October 2019 20:00:14 UTC-4, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 10/21/2019 6:56 PM, Sir Ridesalot wrote:


I do NOT ride the rail-trail when there are amny people on it. It's simply not worth the risks and the road next to it once past the highway is much safer.

There are a couple rail trails near here that I ride on occasion. I like
them because they seldom have many people on them. An empty rail trail
can be quite pleasant.

But it's a bit of a hard sell to say "The government should build a rail
trail here. It will be great, because hardly anyone will use it!"


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- Frank Krygowski

Oh man but I hear you. There's a 78 kilometers long rail trail that runs from Cambridge Canada passes near Paris and then to Hamilton via Brantford. It's on the right of way of the old Lake Erie and Northern Electric Railway that used to run all the way down to Port Dover on Lake Erie. During the weekdays it's not to busy until perhaps shortly before dinner time. However on the weekends and especially nice days in summer that rail-trail is like a major highway during rush hour with all sorts of congestion and idiots to the point that a bicyclist is best to avoid it. I don't know how much it cost to convert it to the limestone dust trail but in sections about 6km south of Cambridge to close to Cambridge that trail is getting overgrown to the point where it's almost a single track trail with not enough room for two bicycles to pass each other. A lot of the times I find that once at the trail head in Cambridge it's faster to ride to Paris along a nearby road than to use the trail even though the trail is straighter and has a maximum 3% grade running down to Paris. Put those dog walkers with the long thin retractable leashes on it and you have a pretty dangerous ride especially if you ride at any speed.

Cheers