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Re: West Seventh Street grade separation project
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 04-13-2008 - 12:26
Key Route Ken Wrote:
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> Mike Pechner Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > This from the news story in the Oakland
> Tribune:
> >
> > They agreed to support a program that included
> a
> > $427 million project to separate street and
> rail
> > access along Seventh Street in West Oakland, of
> > which the CTC approved $175 million, and
> projects
> > to straighten, widen and build spurs along
> major
> > rail corridors through the Donner Summit on the
> > way to Nevada and through the Tehachapi
> Mountains
> > into Southern California.
>
> Hey Mike- There has NOT been any RAIL on Seventh
> Street in West Oakland since about 1942. So what
> exactly are you talking about ?
>
> KRK
Refers to grade crossing improvements and separations on the lead used by BNSF and UP to access the Port of Oakland's Oakland International Gateway, particularly at the grade crossing at the intersection of Middle Harbor Road and West Seventh Street on the old SP 'Bays Lead'.
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> Mike Pechner Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > This from the news story in the Oakland
> Tribune:
> >
> > They agreed to support a program that included
> a
> > $427 million project to separate street and
> rail
> > access along Seventh Street in West Oakland, of
> > which the CTC approved $175 million, and
> projects
> > to straighten, widen and build spurs along
> major
> > rail corridors through the Donner Summit on the
> > way to Nevada and through the Tehachapi
> Mountains
> > into Southern California.
>
> Hey Mike- There has NOT been any RAIL on Seventh
> Street in West Oakland since about 1942. So what
> exactly are you talking about ?
>
> KRK
Refers to grade crossing improvements and separations on the lead used by BNSF and UP to access the Port of Oakland's Oakland International Gateway, particularly at the grade crossing at the intersection of Middle Harbor Road and West Seventh Street on the old SP 'Bays Lead'.
