Fishers and Noblesville want to build a 9.3 million dollar trail
and rip out the tracks of the Nickel Plate to make this happen. Sounds
wonderful and once again the Republicans are using fake positions to get their
way.
They don’t care about a Monon style path the real reason is
they don’t’ want the tracks in place that could lead to a mass transit rail
service. Funny how Mayor Fadness has spoken about how he is now against light
rail when he was for it a few years ago. If you rip out the tracks the cost in the future skyrockets
and it might prevent any rail service from coming to town.
Of course the concept of a trail is wonderful and that is
the trick they will be using to try and kill any rail service. Another bit of fake statements is a
term called rail banking where the area could in the future be converted back
to rail. Now according to the
American Trails only 8 potions of track have ever been returned to active railroad
service. One was for a 350-foot section of a 64.5-mile rail track. Another one where they realized they
need a small section to park rail cars or .21 miles of a 6.2 mile section. A
few others were much larger. But the odds are this will never come back as very
little has of the 4,408 miles set aside.
While it makes sense to use abandoned rail lines for trails
this is not the case. This is a clear attempt to stop light rail from Fishers
and Noblesville to downtown Indy.
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