The entire rail line north of the Wassaic station has been acquired by New York State and committed to a linear park, the Harlem Valley Rail Trail.
When the initial 1.2-mile spur opened in 2009, the press hailed it for its improvement of an extensively blighted corridor populated by lurkers, transforming it from a dumpsite to a linear park.
As of 2014, there are plans to revamp the MetroPath as a linear park, taking after the popular Highline Park in New York City, by a group known as "Friends of the GreenLink.
The wide right of way has plenty of room to include a linear park as well.
Madrid Río has been described as a linear park that knits together a number of neighborhood parks, and that is exactly right.
"Chief among these will be a new stretch of the Thames riverside path and a linear park running right the way through the district from east to west.
The landscaped open space will include a linear park that conforms to the city's plan for a public walk along its entire waterfront.
But unlike the High Line, which is likely to become what urban designers call a linear park, the piers will never be useful again.
In central Queens, planners want to create a linear park, called the QueensWay, that would be more than twice as long as the High Line.
It was a linear park; it went north to south for 10.5 miles in the county and crossed through eight communities.
