{"id":6326,"date":"2023-10-08T13:04:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T13:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/?p=6326"},"modified":"2023-10-08T13:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T13:04:47","slug":"interview-with-peter-harnick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/interview-with-peter-harnick\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Peter Harnick, Cofounder of RTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Walls talks with Peter Harnik, cofounder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railstotrails.org\/\">Rails-to-Trails Conservancy<\/a>, about grassroots and legislative efforts to repurpose abandoned railroad lines as recreational trails. Harnik discusses why the United States has so many abandoned railroad lines, the process of converting a railroad line into a trail, and the legislation that provides funding for trail projects.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/resourcesradio\/from-rails-to-trails-with-peter-harnik?fbclid=IwAR2NeBEFEPqUvPRV_x4i7GDZCmygHYN3zb6Vq0YG3TTjDeBAA8XGdbTSiMA_aem_ARANfCnZsOZ719NDxBJGzFLFDo-CKCULQuR5gcBFsnB62Tyx8au2KfbsNa5qHCNQqqg&amp;utm_source=mobi&amp;utm_campaign=social_sharing\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>References and recommendations:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Rails to Trails: The Making of America\u2019s Active Transportation Network\u201d by Peter Harnik;\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.nebraskapress.unl.edu\/nebraska\/9781496222060\/\" href=\"https:\/\/gate.sc\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nebraskapress.unl.edu%2Fnebraska%2F9781496222060%2F&amp;token=b57bf0-1-1696769668444\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\">www.nebraskapress.unl.edu\/nebraska\/9781496222060\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rails-to-Trails Conservancy;\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.railstotrails.org\/\" href=\"https:\/\/gate.sc\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.railstotrails.org%2F&amp;token=d8f757-1-1696769668445\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener ugc\">www.railstotrails.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Walls talks with Peter Harnik, cofounder of the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, about grassroots and legislative efforts to repurpose abandoned railroad lines as recreational trails. Harnik discusses why the United States&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-trail-updates"},"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6328,"href":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326\/revisions\/6328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}