Comments on: How Much is a Bike Trail Worth? https://www.isegoria.net/2011/12/how-much-is-a-bike-trail-worth/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:48:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Sconzey https://www.isegoria.net/2011/12/how-much-is-a-bike-trail-worth/comment-page-1/#comment-403969 Sconzey Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:07:52 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=27728#comment-403969 Fascinating, and entirely expected. From a more classically libertarian perspective, it’s an interesting problem to work out how those residents could co-ordinate to produce the bike trail.

I would be interested if you could find an area where there’d been a lot of foreclosures. There can’t be that many mortgage companies, and an additional $9000 on every property could potentially add up to a lot.

The other alternative is something like Kickstarter, owned by a construction company, where local busybodies can start a proposal for a trail, take pledges of funds. When a threshold is reached, the construction company works out how much it would cost to build the trail (here in the UK we call them cycle paths), and when that value is reached the company builds the trail.

]]> By: David Foster https://www.isegoria.net/2011/12/how-much-is-a-bike-trail-worth/comment-page-1/#comment-403646 David Foster Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:35:54 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=27728#comment-403646 Not sure what the deal was for this particular trail, but often rail-to-trail projects are done with the proviso that the right-of-way can be used again for rail if the need ever develops. This has become a real issue with the projected surface-level Washington Metro line between Bethesda and Silver Spring, MD, which would run along right-of-way now used mainly by a bike path. The project would not destroy the trail, but not all trail users or residents are very happy about it.

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