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Re: Santa Cruz City Council Member Tells Brian Peoples We Are Keeping The Tracks
Author: Shortline Sammie
Date: 05-07-2015 - 10:06
The Odd Duck Wrote:
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> I believe if you are to get the rails removed you
> first must file a notice of abandonment with the
> PUC before you can do anything etc. Then the PUC
> may or may not give you abandonment rights. Thrown
> in other interesting parties and I think it will
> be a long before that happens.
It is the US Surface Transportation Board that must approve an abandonment and the California PUC may also have a say. The railroad must certify that no traffic moved over the affected portion for the previous two years and that there is no prospect of traffic to make the line viable in the forseeable future.
I can't imagine public (or private) money being spent to make a bridge 286K compliant only to have the tracks removed for bicycle / jogger traffic.
Dick Samuels
Oregon Pacific Railroad
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> I believe if you are to get the rails removed you
> first must file a notice of abandonment with the
> PUC before you can do anything etc. Then the PUC
> may or may not give you abandonment rights. Thrown
> in other interesting parties and I think it will
> be a long before that happens.
It is the US Surface Transportation Board that must approve an abandonment and the California PUC may also have a say. The railroad must certify that no traffic moved over the affected portion for the previous two years and that there is no prospect of traffic to make the line viable in the forseeable future.
I can't imagine public (or private) money being spent to make a bridge 286K compliant only to have the tracks removed for bicycle / jogger traffic.
Dick Samuels
Oregon Pacific Railroad
