[Lurker]

I have no doubt you’re correct. I’m sure here in Illinois the gas tax has been robbed to pay for them. Hell they rob it for everything else. I was merely pointing out that we already have hundreds and hundreds of miles of these trails here in Illinois.

My County has several already. Many of them cut right through our County Forest Preserves. Would I prefer they be paid for differently? You bet.

But they’re now sunken costs and there’s nothing that can be done about it, not here anyway. I’d much prefer user fees like they have in Wisconsin. A permit is required up there in order to legally take advantage of them. The Sugar River Trail is an example of that.

Best,

L

[rlmorel]

I hear you.

But as you can see from my post above, it isn’t that as a conservative have hostility to them because they seem like a liberal thing (an attituede as SamAdams76 reasonably pointed out, sometimes exists)

I simply think we are in a crisis and need to face up to it with hard choices.

Rail Trails and such are just one of them IMO, that’s all.