In some cases, bike and pedestrian lines are built or transformed from railways or car lines to take advantage of a previous infrastructure which does not have necessity nowadays. This is the case of the rail trails in Spain (https://trafficnightmare.net/rail-trail/) or Baana.

Baana is located in Helsinki, Finland. It connects Helsinki downtown with residential and commercial areas. Over a million people use it every year. This 1,5 kilometers line was born to allow train goods movement between the central station and the west suppliers dock in 1894. In order to do so, an open canyon was dug on which a railway was put. After more than a century and the infrastructure lack of use, neighbors associations, urban-plannings and the mayor decided to give it a new use with urban biking in mind. The 16,000 squared meters were transformed into a bike-pedestrian line surrounded by nature, with specific places in which urban artists create graffiti murals, the Love Helsinki sculpture by Janne Siltanen and there are sport fields really close. Indeed, this line is integrated in a long park. At the same time, Baana connects bicyclers to the Nikolaleff palace and the Natural Sciences Museum.

This project was completed with the Orient Baana to be the backbone of the Helsinki bike lines. Not surprinsingly, Baana received the European Public Urban Place award in 2014 due to its meaning impact on urban revitalization in Helsinki.