Comment EI-31290
Received or sent (printed as 9/15/2021)
Dear Surface Transportation Board Members, The Humboldt Trails Council (HTC) serves as a unified voice to support development and use of trails for recreation and transportation throughout Humboldt County. Please set a timeline and proceed with the North Coast Railroad Authority's application to railbank the Northwestern Pacific Rail line. HTC endorses the NCRA’s Environment and Historic Reports submitted to the STB, and supports the NCRA’s request for a Notice of Interim Trail Use (NITU) for all of its rail corridors and properties north of Commercial Street in Willits, CA. It is not necessary to pause the larger railbanking process to confirm the legal status of two terminal segments of the farthest reaches of the rail line. There is enormous public support for railbanking and the proposed Great Redwood Trail. But neither the North Coast public nor the Eel River Canyon’s geology will support the unprecedented levels of freight rail traffic that would be required to finance reconstruction and maintenance of a railroad from Willits to Humboldt Bay. Humboldt Trail Council endorses the NCRA’s Environment and Historic Reports submitted to the STB, and supports the NCRA’s request for a Notice of Interim Trail Use (NITU) for all of its rail corridors and properties north of Commercial Street in Willits, CA. HTC believes that the railbanking of this corridor is critical to protecting this immensely valuable public resource so it remains dedicated for current and future transportation needs on the North Coast. Sincerely, Karen Underwood on behalf of the Humboldt Trails Council Board of Directors
Submitted by: Karen Underwood · Humboldt Trails Council · Eureka, CA
The Board publishes this comment in its environmental-comment table for this proceeding. It is quoted here as printed; nothing is inferred from it, and it states the commenter's own position in their own words, not this record's.
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