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Re: The UP Police at the Davis Amtrak Station on Friday Nights
Author: Wizard
Date: 04-02-2011 - 17:27
There are three issues here none that anyone posting their opinions has addressed which are:
1) This City of Davis having allowed the housing (cabins) directly across from the station to be put in so many years ago along with the other housing near it, the reason for the trespassers is for one simple reason which is most likely the fact that when SP was the owner of the RR and the ROW never bothered to put it's agents at the station to do what the UP is now doing and since that never happened, word-of-mouth spread enough so over the many years that if one were to take the "shortcut" across the RR tracks, nothing would happen because when there was no Capitol Corridor service and just the SP freights & passenger train service.
2)Am incident in Suisun City just east of the depot about a week ago had all of the trains stopped because one crew spotted a person laying across the tracks which tied up all movements. The time to call out the FD, the PD and a "meat wagon" to haul away this person and still look for the over unnoticed person just probably PO's the RR in general.
If anything, the City of Davis should do more than to simply allow those citizens cheap short access to where the live on the other side of the busy RR tracks. It allowed the housing development (existing) to go in many years ago and it's my guess that they never consulted with SP then or maybe they didn't and SP never objected once. But now there's different RR landlord and if anything, both the City of Davis, UCD and the UPRR should all be working together to get the message across that yes, there is a blind curve and no, the freights don't always slow down except for during the daylight hours when there's more pedestrians afoot. Nothing can be worst when the headend comes around a curve at speed to find somebody crossing in front of their train with no chance in stopping before impact!
3) UPRR owns the tracks and ROW. If any one of you were the landlord, would you allow anyone to willfully trespass on and over your property if there were dangerous areas or conditions that you knew about? And what if someone was severely injured or worse, died because you allowed that person to trespass on & over your property to come into contact with the danger you knew existed? Relatives of that person would most likely sue you, the landlord in court for allowing the person on and over your property despite adequate anti-trespassing signage posted on your property that forced you to defend yourself by making you spend money on legal counsel.
1) This City of Davis having allowed the housing (cabins) directly across from the station to be put in so many years ago along with the other housing near it, the reason for the trespassers is for one simple reason which is most likely the fact that when SP was the owner of the RR and the ROW never bothered to put it's agents at the station to do what the UP is now doing and since that never happened, word-of-mouth spread enough so over the many years that if one were to take the "shortcut" across the RR tracks, nothing would happen because when there was no Capitol Corridor service and just the SP freights & passenger train service.
2)Am incident in Suisun City just east of the depot about a week ago had all of the trains stopped because one crew spotted a person laying across the tracks which tied up all movements. The time to call out the FD, the PD and a "meat wagon" to haul away this person and still look for the over unnoticed person just probably PO's the RR in general.
If anything, the City of Davis should do more than to simply allow those citizens cheap short access to where the live on the other side of the busy RR tracks. It allowed the housing development (existing) to go in many years ago and it's my guess that they never consulted with SP then or maybe they didn't and SP never objected once. But now there's different RR landlord and if anything, both the City of Davis, UCD and the UPRR should all be working together to get the message across that yes, there is a blind curve and no, the freights don't always slow down except for during the daylight hours when there's more pedestrians afoot. Nothing can be worst when the headend comes around a curve at speed to find somebody crossing in front of their train with no chance in stopping before impact!
3) UPRR owns the tracks and ROW. If any one of you were the landlord, would you allow anyone to willfully trespass on and over your property if there were dangerous areas or conditions that you knew about? And what if someone was severely injured or worse, died because you allowed that person to trespass on & over your property to come into contact with the danger you knew existed? Relatives of that person would most likely sue you, the landlord in court for allowing the person on and over your property despite adequate anti-trespassing signage posted on your property that forced you to defend yourself by making you spend money on legal counsel.
