Mike Check
NCJ:Your excitement about the trail project, I know, will encourage a lot of people here. But it kind of makes you wonder about the railroad authority, which has not had a lot of success up here in Humboldt County. It doesn’t look like it’s going to be moving freight to here anytime soon. Which has people thinking about rail-to-trail options. Do you support those?
Thompson: Oh, absolutely. And I don’t think they’re in conflict at all. I think the whole rail issue is going to have to play itself out. I think the southern stretch is going to be able to be established and working, and there’s a lot of interest in doing a northern stretch, too. If that works and it proves that there’s further they can go, then that will prove out over time.
But clearly, irrespective of whatever happens with the railroad, there’s certainly an opportunity to do the rail-to-trail. And they can coexist.
NCJ:How would they coexist? With a rail-to-trail project, you generally think about turning a railroad into a trail.
Thompson: No, you can do the trail portion along the railroad right-of-way.
NCJ:The problem, here, being that it would be really expensive, at least between Eureka and Arcata.
Thompson: The problem, here, is that any option with this rail right-of-way is going to be expensive.
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THREE Comments
Comment / By Chris Lester / Sept. 10, 2009, 9:05 a.m.
No Mike, the Afghanis did not do 9/11. Israel and its treasonous agents in this country did it. Or was it a cell of Taliban sand-ninjas that snuck over here and loaded the towers with military-grade nanothermite explosives? And tricked NORAD into standing down? And brought down WTC7 through sheer concentration, like Uri Geller? And had the tyrannical PATRIOT Act ready to go well in advance of the event? Every lie you tell in the service of the cover-up, Mike, makes you that much more of an accomplice. Remember that this anniversary.
Comment / By Thirdeye / Sept. 15, 2009, 6:32 p.m.
This idea of turning the railroad right-of-way into a trail is a pipe dream. The track is on easements, not NCRA owned property, along most of its length. Any other use would require new easements from landowners, and no way are they going to provide easements for a public trail.
@Chris Lester: The tinfoil hat wearing international Jewish conspiracy brigade rears its ugly head again.
Comment / By Mike Buettner / Sept. 26, 2009, 4:35 p.m.
Railbanking takes care of the potential easement issues.