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Originally Posted by Thomas J Stamp
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for it as a cycling and walking trail. Would be a collosal and pointless waste as a rail "corridor" considering the pay-off for all the money spent would be so little in terms of developing public transport usership in the West.
Save the money for a commuter rail service from Sligo to Boyle and turn the Burma Road from Tuam to Coolooney into one of Europe's premier walking and cultural trails.
This kind of thing.
http://www.railtrails.org/index.html
Would be very nice wouldn't it. Imagine the numbers of tourists it would bring in. Would revolutionise tourism in Connacht and couter-act the decline in walking tourists this country has experienced following some negative international PR damage done by some farmers chasing walkers off their land. The Burma Road could be the answer to all this.