In my part of the world, old tram and train tracks usually become bike paths. And its pretty much the only way that we get new bike paths in the countryside.

We can expropriate and build 4 lane highways in the middle of corn fields but we simply have no space left for bike paths, so we take disused rail lines.

I can name at least 4 long distance bike paths here that have replaced rail lines, and there are others planned.

For example, this line closed in 1956 and is now a bike path: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_and_Southern_Counties_Railway

Or this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parc_Linéaire_Le_P'tit_Train_du_Nord

They make very nice bike paths but it’s also a reminder that I could be in a tram to travel those 80 km instead of pedaling them.

If only you had turned your head 90d you would have noticed the traffic lights toggling on and off with miscellaneous philosophical scenarios tied under them.