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Re: I dont see how UP would ever even discuss this
Author: Carol L. Voss
Date: 03-21-2007 - 20:09
Ross Hall Wrote:
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> The liability issues would be unreal. You would
> also have to deal with controling them on each end
> of the bridge, as well as people walking the
> tracks just to cross the river. Let a piece of
> wood fall off a flat car and hit someone and
> bam------multi million dollar lawsuit.
> These modifications would trigger an enviromental
> review of the whole project (I checked) which
> could be what the real goal is anyway. Of course
> BNSF giving up their Renton line adds fuel to
> removing active lines for trails--was at a meeting
> last week in Chicago and it is already being used
> as an example for trail advocates getting what
> they want.
> Next you will hear the trail people asking for
> this line to be abandoned because they are getting
> by without it now with detours and we want a trail
> more than trains. You know the drill.
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Just ask UP about the bridge across the San Lorenzo river in Santa Cruz next to the boardwalk. They finally knuckled under on that one a few years ago but I am sure that the word from then on was NEVER AGAIN!!!! Sacto can pound sand. Won't happen.
C.
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> The liability issues would be unreal. You would
> also have to deal with controling them on each end
> of the bridge, as well as people walking the
> tracks just to cross the river. Let a piece of
> wood fall off a flat car and hit someone and
> bam------multi million dollar lawsuit.
> These modifications would trigger an enviromental
> review of the whole project (I checked) which
> could be what the real goal is anyway. Of course
> BNSF giving up their Renton line adds fuel to
> removing active lines for trails--was at a meeting
> last week in Chicago and it is already being used
> as an example for trail advocates getting what
> they want.
> Next you will hear the trail people asking for
> this line to be abandoned because they are getting
> by without it now with detours and we want a trail
> more than trains. You know the drill.
\
Just ask UP about the bridge across the San Lorenzo river in Santa Cruz next to the boardwalk. They finally knuckled under on that one a few years ago but I am sure that the word from then on was NEVER AGAIN!!!! Sacto can pound sand. Won't happen.
C.
