{"id":8474,"date":"2020-12-19T13:08:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T19:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8474"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:08:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T19:08:36","slug":"the-great-american-rail-trail-is-the-most-ambitious-biking-initiative-the-country-has-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8474","title":{"rendered":"The Great American Rail-Trail is the most ambitious biking initiative the country has ever seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/travel\/story\/20201213-a-new-way-to-travel-across-the-us\">Stephen Starr<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; letter-spacing: -0.1px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railstotrails.org\/greatamericanrailtrail\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(88, 158, 80); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial\">The Great American Rail-Trail<\/a><\/strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>is the most ambitious biking initiative the country has ever seen. Stretching an extraordinary 3,700 miles from the nation\u2019s capital across 12 states to the Pacific Ocean, west of Seattle, it\u2019s an idea that\u2019s been ruminating for 50 years. The Rail-Trail will connect more than 125 existing multi-use paths, greenways, trails and towpaths. An<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gis.railstotrails.org\/grtamerican\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(88, 158, 80); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial\">official route<\/a><\/strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>was announced to the public in May 2019 by the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railstotrails.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(88, 158, 80); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial\">Rails-to-Trails Conservancy<\/a><\/strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>(RTC), the Washington DC-based non-profit leading the effort, when the trail was already more than half completed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Starr: The Great American Rail-Trail&nbsp;is the most ambitious biking initiative the country has ever seen. Stretching an extraordinary 3,700 miles from the nation\u2019s capital across 12 states to the Pacific Ocean, west of Seattle, it\u2019s an idea that\u2019s been ruminating for 50 years. The Rail-Trail will connect more than 125 existing multi-use paths, greenways, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8475,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474\/revisions\/8475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}