Raleigh high speed rail causing concern
The Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor is a massive infrastructure project identified by the federal government as necessary to facilitate the long-term needs of transport in the southeast of the United States, but many in Raleigh are concerned about the part Raleigh will play in the government’s plans and how the city will be effected.
According to the Federal Railroad Administrations current designation, the Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor will occupy five states moving south from Washington, D.C. through Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The plan has since been updated to include a second high speed rail link that will branch off from the first line in Raleigh and will include a number of cities including Atlanta before looping back to Jacksonville.
The first line passes from Washington, D.C down to Raleigh and then onto Columbia in South Carolina and terminates in Jacksonville, Florida. In total, 11 cities will be serviced by the Southeast Corridor with Raleigh acting as an intersection between the two main lines.
Funding for the several hundred million dollar project has come primarily from the United States Department of Transport and the state of Northern Carolina and Virginia. It is a massive infrastructure project, with the first section, a high speed rail link between Charlotte, Greensburg, Durham, Raleigh, Richmond and Washington, D.C., only expected to be in service by 2018 at the latest.
Nevertheless, some residents of Raleigh are concerned about the construction and long-term impact of the development on the city and have been attending meetings aimed at providing the local authorities involved in the construction of the high speed rail line in Raleigh with feedback from the public.
The primary concern for residents of Raleigh is the impact that the rail line may have on their home and business properties, because a railway line is necessarily constructed in a generally straight line, there are bound to be properties that will have to be condemned in order for the railway to be built through them.
“It's certainly a fair warning to keep involved and watch what's going to come,” Herb Pierson, who owns a warehouse in Raleigh’s corridor identified for the railway, told Raleigh news media. “They could move that line 20 feet and that would cut right into our buildings.”
Pierson was attending a public meeting, one of many, being held to inform interested members of the public of the railway development plan and hear their feedback. At the meeting, the 150 attendees were primarily those living on or near the various route options being considered for Raleigh.
Pat Bradford was another resident attending the meeting.
“It is kind of frightening at 70 to have to think about moving because the railroad is coming to your house,” she told Raleigh news provider, WRAL.
It is envisioned by the local authorities that the public meetings, of which there will undoubtedly be many over the next decade, will provide a better sense of where to route the high speed rail line, which will accommodate trains travelling at up to 110 miles per hour.
North Carolina’s portion of the railway will cost around $545 million, which was provided by the federal government in stimulus funds, part of the national American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The ARRA has seen over $8 billion granted nationally to state to support the development of inter-city rail links with special priority to be given to high speed rail projects.
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