It was almost 10 years ago when we first got our hopes up on the possibilities of the Southwest Trail. A bicycle/pedestrian trail to be built, mainly, along the Old Rock Island rail line from Little Rock to Hot Springs, Arkansas. Over the next decade, grants were applied for, public meetings were held, county judges retired and were replaced, and for a while, it seemed that things had come to a grinding halt. But that’s not the case. Designing a greenway across three counties, multiple cities and towns, multiple legislative districts, and under the jurisdiction of various state and federal