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34 THE RURAL VOICE
ment began at least 10 years ago and
now boasts more than 120 successful
conversions. Many of the potential
problems cited by landowners here did
not materialize south of the border,
and in fact the U.S. government
passed a law that all abandoned
railway line property must be banked
for future use. Much of this land has
been turned into "linear parks"
managed by state governments.
"The chances of ever assembling a
corridor of land like that (Guelph to
Goderich) again through southern
Ontario are not very good," Van Den
Broeck says. This is especially true if
recreation groups are the assemblers.
The order of inheritance for
abandoned railway property places the
federal government first in line, fol-
lowed by the provincial government,
municipalities, adjoining landowners,
and, lastly, recreation groups. This
would indicate that if the province and
the trail people don't make a pact of
some sort the recreation groups will
never get out of the starting gate.
Van Den Broeck points out that
tourism could bring as much prosper-
ity to the small towns built along the
lines as the railway did — and for far
fewer dollars than represented by the
land that government lavished upon
railway owners to lay down the tracks.
The tourist trade is the new golden
child of government planners, especi-
ally with the increasing disposable
incomes of the many happy campers
venturing out from industrialized
countries. Tourist dollars mean jobs,
something politicians keep in mind
when making any decisions, especially
in rural ridings with depressed
economies.
Trail supporters also note that
having the lines converted to public
property would give the police the
right to enter that property, reducing
the chances of criminal activity which
now exist.
A third suggestion, not pursued too
vigorously by the trail association so
far, involves turning the land over to a
private management firm which would
operate the trail on a user -fee basis.
Whatever plan a trail would
proceed under, the recreation group
acknowledges that municipal roads
and drains intersecting the line would
have to be maintained as a shared cost.