{"id":1262,"date":"2024-01-29T22:08:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T22:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2024-01-29T22:08:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T22:08:26","slug":"once-a-greenway-never-a-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2024\/01\/29\/once-a-greenway-never-a-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"Once a greenway, never a railway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Advocates of greenways argue that an advantage of ripping up railway lines and converting them to greenways will allow for a railway to be put back at some future point as a greenway will allow preservation of the alignment for such a future use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would argue that once a greenway, a railway is not coming back as those that make use of the greenway, especially if they have developed a business around it, will absolutely oppose the closure of the greenway to allow rail based transport to resume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/road.cc\/content\/news\/travesty-if-tram-plan-leads-loss-cycle-path-306435\">This example from Edinburgh is a case in point.<\/a> Proposals to extend the tram network in Edinburgh, which involve the restriction of use of a &#8220;travel corridor&#8221; by cyclists, are being opposed due to the aforementioned restriction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates of greenways argue that an advantage of ripping up railway lines and converting them to greenways will allow for a railway to be put back at some future point as a greenway will allow preservation of the alignment for such a future use. I would argue that once a greenway, a railway is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}