Culvert looks shallow enough for the bike enthusiasts to pass at low tide.
Maybe post a sign to that affect !!
Maybe post a sign to that affect !!
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malbojah wrote:Do you think the culvert replacement took into thought the possible connection of the bike trails and left enough room for a bridge to piggyback the rail line?The culvert replacement / causeway work was for the RR line only with no additional work done for any future bike trail consideration. If the bike trail ever does reach this area it would require the construction of several long bridge's as the Monk's park area is the beginning of the Pocasset wetlands. This area is designated by MassDEP as a area of critical concern which has extensive regulations and they don't allow the filling in of wetlands. It would be cost prohibitive to build bridges through this area but MassDOT may decide to build them anyways, if MassDEP allows it. It will be approximately 15 to 20 years into the future for the Rail with trail path to even possibly get to the Monk's park area, depending on funding and approval from MassDOT / MassDEP, even though local bike path activists still want the tracks removed. However the Town of Bourne Transportation committee is moving forward with design plans / building the bike path parallel to the tracks as they are working in the world of reality, knowing that the tracks are not going to be removed. The first 1/2 mile section from Canal junction to the Gray Gables crossing may be possibly constructed in 2 years subject to funding / permitting / MassDOT approval as there are no wetlands in this section, and as long as it doesn't interfere with RR operations. The Falmouth Secondary line is in the planning stages for rehabilitation and the Otis Industrial track per the 2018 Rail plan is under study for rehabilitation as well, so RR operations will continue well into the future no matter what bike path activists think ! As you can see per the photo there is no land along the RR tracks in the Pocasset wetlands to build a bike path with expensive bridges being the only option if it does happen.
Falmouth Secondary to Otis wrote:Looks like it's the dead of winter slow period on the Falmouth secondary line out to Otis UCRTS as Mass Coastal appears to be delivering / picking up C&D cars only once a week on Wednesday since the beginning of January.Sorry about the lack of traffic, should pick up the beginning of March when house building season begins in earnest.
John Smythe wrote:. It would be a state of the art facility & handle 1,000 tons a day. Trucks would come to the facility, unload & after materials were sorted out, gondolas would be filled, covered for shipment to perhaps SEMASS, some to a huge landfill in Ohio or other locations. There are 2 other transfer stations on the Middleboro Line the safest time for the CSX train to doing all the switching is at night after the last commuter rail train has made it's run.Semass can't even handle the 20 cars that come from Yarmouth, and that's only about 5-600 tons per day in the summer.
John Smythe wrote:I was under the impression that the SEMASS plant in Rochester was capable of handling more tonnage per day than what the cape trash train deliversThey can, but proccessing time is faster to have msw brought in by truck / trailer. If the building is empty, they can unload (my guestimate) 400+ tons per hour. Rail cars are around 50-60 tons loaded and take longer to unload
BandA wrote:Since the rails were removed against common sense, it should go to the back of the line, or at least back of the line for state money. Still, should be analyzed. I assume rail + trail means single track operation?As far as I know there are no current or future State plans in the works to restore Rail service to Falmouth station and if there were it would be a long time waiting for that to happen. Yes, Rail + trail would still be single track operation as the Falmouth secondary line was always single track in the past, except in front of North Falmouth station and downtown Falmouth Station where run around sidings were located. As far as the existing active remaining Falmouth secondary line, Bourne bike path activists were put in there place last year when they were told the Rail line isn't going anywhere and will have to settle on trying to build a Rail + trail from Canal junction to North Falmouth so it will connect to the Shining sea bike path to Woods Hole. Hopefully this year more track & crossing improvements on the Falmouth Secondary will take place as listed on the State Rail plan and eventually the Otis Industrial track as well.
malbojah wrote:C&D business picking up as Mass Coastal delivered 5 empties to Otis and picked up 4 loads to ship off Cape today. Shipments have changed to Fridays since the beginning of March. Schedule probably will change as construction activity on the Cohasset Narrows RR bridge reconstruction in Buzzards Bay is starting to pickup.Falmouth Secondary to Otis wrote:Looks like it's the dead of winter slow period on the Falmouth secondary line out to Otis UCRTS as Mass Coastal appears to be delivering / picking up C&D cars only once a week on Wednesday since the beginning of January.Sorry about the lack of traffic, should pick up the beginning of March when house building season begins in earnest.