Saturday, March 2, 2013

Inside an east-west rail feasibility study

For a little more than a year, our community has been discussing an idea to explore the feasibility of an alternative rail route, aka east-west route, that would connect Humboldt Bay's deepwater seaport to the national rail network at a connection in the Sacramento valley. - David Hull and Lance Madsen/for the Times-Standard

Throughout these discussions, people have wondered: Where will it go? How much will it cost? What are the environmental impacts? How long will it take to build? What will it carry? The truthful answer to all of those is “it will be in the feasibility study”; but what does that mean exactly?

◼ Related: North-south rail: A plan that can hold water - John Moore/for the Times-Standard
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Bring your questions to our HRWF meeting, March 21st, David Hull will be speaking on this topic.