[SustainableTompkins] Rail transportation and trash

[Jon Bosak]

 > There are no rails there now; the graded route will still be there
 > should we need it for rail.  And ownership of it will be clear.

Seems to me that it would work the other way around.  I don't know
of any railroads on public land.  Rail companies have to own the
road bed before they'll invest anything in it.

I doubt that people around here are going to be willing to sell
that land back to a rail company before we run out of the
resources to put the rails back.

Jon


Gail Blake wrote:
> I used to be ambivalent about the creation of rail trails also. As a 
> someone who bicycles for transportation, I know that they are not 
> just "recreational" as George says, but rather provide safe 
> transportation corridors for non-motorized movement. But I had 
> concerns that the rail beds would someday be needed for rail and that 
> this possibility would be lost if they became trails. What I have 
> come to realize, however, is that a trail is still a publicly owned 
> right of way and is a much better way to protect these corridors for 
> public use than allowing the neighboring landowners to treat them as 
> private property, putting up fences and blockages, as has occurred 
> along the route of the Black Diamond Trail. There are no rails there 
> now; the graded route will still be there should we need it for rail. 
> And ownership of it will be clear.
> 
> Gail Blake
> 
> At 12:43 PM 3/3/2008, you wrote:
>>   The most direct rail link between NYC and Seneca Meadows would 
>> actually be through Ithaca.  The railbed is even still 
>> intact.  Unfortunately it's reserved for a higher priority - the 
>> Black Diamond Trail recreational bikeway.
>>
> 
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