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+===== Countries =====
+==== England / UK / Britain ====
+== Britain is building one of the world’s most expensive railways. Many people now think it’s pointless ==
+Ben Jones, CNN - 6:01 AM EST, Mon November 18, 2024
+ Building new railways is an expensive business. Even in ideal circumstances, carving a new route through the landscape costs millions of dollars per mile and can take decades to complete.
+If you want to build that railway through one of Europe’s most densely populated countries, expect the costs and opposition to increase dramatically.
+With its first — and now only — phase currently costed at between $58.4 billion and $70 billion by the UK government, Britain’s High Speed 2 (HS2) rail project now costs an eye watering $416 million per mile.
+It’s a metric that gives it the dubious honor of being the world‘s most expensive railway project.
+https://www.cnn.com/travel/hs2-britain-expensive-high-speed-railway/index.html
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+====== Rail to Trail Conversion ======
+===== California =====
+== An old rail track in Northern California could become a 300-mile hiking trail ==
+Lila Seidman, Staff Writer - April 6, 2024 5 AM PT
+More than a century ago, a railroad was constructed to shuttle passengers and redwood logs between San Francisco and Humboldt Bay.
+Now the since-abandoned train track could be transformed into a 307-mile pathway through remote, wild country along California’s North Coast, a move advocates hope will create a world-class outdoors destination and jump-start the economy.
+The Great Redwood Trail moved closer to realization this week with the release of a document mapping out the planning, construction and management of the trail in Mendocino, Trinity and Humboldt counties, or the northern portion of the envisioned path. Segments in Sonoma and Marin counties will be planned separately.
+“I would put it in the category of the Pacific Crest Trail, the Appalachian Trail — these large, landscape-scale trails that provide an experience for people to see areas that they just would never have access to otherwise,” said Caryl Hart, chair of the California Coastal Commission and board member of the Great Redwood Trail Agency, which is tasked with developing the path.
+https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-04-06/northern-california-rail-track-could-become-hiking-trail