> 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. >> > > _______________________________________________ > RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: > [email protected] > http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins > free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org > > _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
