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Appreciate sensible and helpful comments. Re RailAmerica trying to shut down E & N Trail in BC, perhaps they gave in to pressure from tourism interests plus bike lobbies and bicycle industry. We have bikers galore attending all public meetings on the Rail Trail proposal. They even yell out, "We want our rail trail!" Recently bikers illegally enteried the UP rail corridor and put up signs that say, "Welcome to Rail Trail," when of course UP prohibiits trespassing and there is no trail. They're even "building their own trail" near Seabright Brewery in Santa Cruz. Some of the bike groups are connected to "Sensible Transportation" lobbyists (get out of gasoline and oil driven vehicles) in Washington DC, who have state offices and reps and according to "non profit" info websites, lots of millions to support so-called grassroots groups. Actually I'm worried about the bikers (mostly young people) digging along the rail line. County had a study done by Geometrix that shows visible areas of contamination along the rail line--spills, underground fuel tanks leaking, rusty chemical containers lying nearby an abandoned plastics factory, an auto dismantling place. Study looked at the corridor by air and also checked county environmental health records. Some of the chemicals and toxins that may be in the soils, air and underground water of the rail corridor are very scary--arsenic, PCBs, lead. They can cause neurological problems, cancer, birth defects. Shouldn't our county or the owners long ago cleaned up any contamination in this more than century old rail line? By the way, I'm pretty sure the county thinks the rail company that it's planning to contract with to run the Budd cars Tourist Train will pay for liability insurance. Two of the companies interested are Sierra and Big Trees.
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