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Originally Posted by TiltonBB
The Laconia Mayor says “The thing that galls us is that this is a public right of way owned by the people of New Hampshire that runs right through the city and it is horribly under-utilized.”
From The Laconia Sun:
https://www.laconiadailysun.com/news...0bd807e04.html |
This is where the facts get skewed, it's "not a public right of way", it's a railroad right of way owned by the state. There's a big difference.
Another one they keep referring to is: NHDOT, telling the city that "rail takes priority" as a "state law", there's no state law that I can find and I've looked for it. What the state is referring to, is its obligation to abide by common carrier regulations that they agreed to when they purchased the line from the railroad. Like everything else rail related, the states purchase had to be approved by the then Interstate Commerce Commission (long since dissolved by the government) and now under the STB.