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Re: Santa Cruz City Council Member Tells Brian Peoples We Are Keeping The Tracks
Author: Howard
Date: 05-07-2015 - 10:59
Shortline Sammie Wrote:
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> 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
Dick,
Rest assured that Brian Peoples comments are being ignored at the highest levels.
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> The Odd Duck Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > 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
Dick,
Rest assured that Brian Peoples comments are being ignored at the highest levels.
