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Re: SMART Progress On Haystack; DMUs Arriving Soon
Author: Dr Zarkoff
Date: 02-13-2015 - 17:09
>Transit and freight are in a cold war, viz., SMART vs. NCRA-NWP. One of them has to go.
According to the SMART "Who are we" link on it's website:
"On January 1, 2003 a new regional transportation district was established to oversee the development and implementation of passenger rail service in Sonoma and Marin Counties. The new rail district, created with the passage of California State Assembly Bill 2224 (Nation, District 6), holds in public ownership, over seventy miles of railroad right-of-way (ROW), estimated to be worth more than $1 billion."
So it sounds like "the NWP" (meaning the freight operator) is has been sucking hind t*t since 2003 if not earlier (I think SMART owns the service mark for the NWP, not sure). As for the NCRA, that's a whole other can of worms, which the GGB&H owns a major share of.
According to the SMART "Who are we" link on it's website:
"On January 1, 2003 a new regional transportation district was established to oversee the development and implementation of passenger rail service in Sonoma and Marin Counties. The new rail district, created with the passage of California State Assembly Bill 2224 (Nation, District 6), holds in public ownership, over seventy miles of railroad right-of-way (ROW), estimated to be worth more than $1 billion."
So it sounds like "the NWP" (meaning the freight operator) is has been sucking hind t*t since 2003 if not earlier (I think SMART owns the service mark for the NWP, not sure). As for the NCRA, that's a whole other can of worms, which the GGB&H owns a major share of.
