Restoring the tracks to allow freight and passenger trains to run up to Eureka would do more for the economy of the north coast than what a hiking/biking trail could do. It would also reduce cars and freight trucks on highway 101 between Santa Rosa and Eureka. Stations could be built along the right of way that serve as access points to trails that go up into the mountains, down along the rivers/creeks, and out the coast.
@frankmacleod25654 ай бұрын
Trails on private land? Not sure the landowners would agree to that
@snoopyboobsАй бұрын
lol, knope. People love to fantasize about trains but in a lot (most) situations trucks and buses are more affordable and practical. They rail banked it so if it's ever needed as a railroad it could happen.
@etischer4 ай бұрын
Happy to see my tax dollars going into projects like this! Would love to do a 300 mile bike packing trip along this route. In a few decades... let's get this project moving before it doubles in cost!
@frankmacleod25654 ай бұрын
contracts are already going out. It'll take a few years, not decades
@etischer4 ай бұрын
@@frankmacleod2565 @5:36 the executive director said realistically the full contiguous trail would be completed in a few or couple decades.
@frankmacleod25654 ай бұрын
@@etischer Oh well sure, the full line is literally hundreds of miles through rough mountainous terrain. I'm already working on a contract for a portion of the line. It will take a while to get all of it done. Take a look at the history of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad and you'll see some of the issues they're facing. Look up the term "blue goo" or blue slide, there are a lot of big landslides out in that canyon.
@weirdmatter3 ай бұрын
😆 let's throw money away on a trail that would cost money to upkeep before it doubles in cost. Please, people need food and shelter not a trail.
@miken14634 ай бұрын
This project has been championed by the Rails to Trails Organization. I have been a proud member for over 20 years. They are the source of so many pedestrian, bike and horse trails all across the country.
@cardinalstar20484 ай бұрын
Im gearing up now!!! 🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️
@JamesMaynardMoreland4 ай бұрын
I bet we get this before the high speed rail.
@frankmacleod25654 ай бұрын
Construction has begun on the high speed rail to Vegas
@snoopyboobsАй бұрын
High speed rail in california is a fantasy. Look to florida if you want to see how rail can be done.
@raymarks74304 ай бұрын
Great! This will bring much needed revenue to the area and give many of us a new safer way to travel on foot or bike outdoors from Humboldt to SF
@phototristan3 ай бұрын
Will it be paved? Would be an awesome bicycle trip.
@MrMountain7074 ай бұрын
It better allow mountain bikes
@conorreynolds97394 ай бұрын
The reason they had to shut down the rail service (unstable geology leading to catastrophic landslides) won’t cease to be a problem simply because it’s now a pedestrian trail.
@three694 ай бұрын
Bring back the rail road, these gas prices are killing me.
@nockee4 ай бұрын
This would be amazing. The current bike route option is dangerous and puts you on hwy 101 for long sections. This would be good for cars, cyclists and drivers. I wish I would see this in my lifetime but it’s good to for the future.
@EpistleX3 ай бұрын
Oh hell to the no we are not doing a trail of tears!!!!!!!
@robertharker4 ай бұрын
Does the state already own the rail road right of way? Or does the state still need to purchase it or large chunks of it?
@lisavitale84104 ай бұрын
The Redwood Trail sounds amazing.
@MrDjslav54 ай бұрын
Good interview. Looks awesome! Well done everyone.
@PatrickFaith4 ай бұрын
I would love this, it’s important to keep this safe.
@VF180s4 ай бұрын
Hopefully park Rangers can keep it from becoming a homeless encampment
@ryanwaterbury70694 ай бұрын
more connectivity with redwoods please!
@lalodaniels13884 ай бұрын
Or, even better, they can turn it into a passenger rail line instead. Then, people can get to Humboldt Bay quicker.
@frankmacleod25654 ай бұрын
great, you can pony up the billions of dollars it would take to build the line
@user-ke9yk5qp3u4 ай бұрын
Yes, let's spend $1 billion and maybe get 20 people per week to use it! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@lalodaniels13884 ай бұрын
@@user-ke9yk5qp3u we can get that one billion dollars from the hundreds of billions we send to Ukraine and Israel. I would say this is still more well spent than that. Plus if you put nice trails at the stops and along the way you'll get more riders.
@user-ke9yk5qp3u4 ай бұрын
@@lalodaniels1388 👎
@Mr1520084 ай бұрын
@@lalodaniels1388👍
@lumberjackdreamer62674 ай бұрын
Amazing!
@vagabondroller4 ай бұрын
Environmentalists: RAIL IS THE MOST EFFICIENT FORM OF OVERLAND TRAVEL!!! MORE TRAINS, LESS CARS! Also environmentalists: LETS TURN EXISTING RAIL INFRASTRCTURE INTO BIKE TRAILS!!! Seriously people, once we lose a rail line, we never get it back. Just because it isn’t being used right now doesn’t mean it won’t be needed in the future.
@katwashere1944 ай бұрын
Lol this rail line is no longer usable by trains. Take it easy 😂
@wmtrader4 ай бұрын
@@katwashere194 - It can be made usable one again with repairs.
@user-ke9yk5qp3u4 ай бұрын
Bring it!!
@journeyoflovelight4 ай бұрын
The trail will be through Alderpoint the town that was taken over by Weed Growers. How are they going to assure hikers safety through the Emerald Triangle?
@LuckyBaldwin7774 ай бұрын
Newsflash: weed is legal now.
@muskrat32914 ай бұрын
@@LuckyBaldwin777 Newsflash: The area is infested with illegal grows.
@journeyoflovelight4 ай бұрын
@@LuckyBaldwin777 News Flash.. Not all grows are legal. Illegal grows pop up all the time. There guarded and some are booby trap. I lived growing in the area. Im guessing you have no idea. look up illegal grows in emerald triangle.
@frankmacleod25654 ай бұрын
weed is legal now, there's no danger
@user-ke9yk5qp3u4 ай бұрын
Dude! You're stuck in the past!
@santarosa66764 ай бұрын
I’ll be gearing up for 2060!! Can’t wait
@peterbedford26104 ай бұрын
Youre being very optimistic
@Johnnyred514 ай бұрын
There are some impassable parts of the old North Western Railroad due to tunnel and bridge closures. This may require more planning than anticipated. Otherwise, I hope it works!
@mrm45574 ай бұрын
During the politics and bureaucracy of Bay Area, I won't be surprised that it takes until my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-granchildrn Will most probably not even see it
@frankmacleod25654 ай бұрын
The bay area is at the end of the line only. The trail is not in the bay area
@s.terris95374 ай бұрын
Sounds wonderful! Great investment!
@celebrityrog4 ай бұрын
FOUR DECADES in the making? That means, there is no reason it will ever be done, it will cost more than just rebuilding the railroad as an operational scenic tourist line. Will there be any water, food, shelter, charging areas, police and medical along the trail? Cell service? You're basically making a pedestrian highway. WHY?
@chrissknutson4 ай бұрын
Go team go!
@porsche1874 ай бұрын
She sounds like a robot ….
@Thomas-fy9yc4 ай бұрын
It’s sounds awesome, but it’s California so it’ll never get done.
@frankmacleod25654 ай бұрын
we're working on it already. Contracts are out. Try again
@skatetoexplorevideos24774 ай бұрын
Who the hell is going to walk or bike 300 miles?
@Kitty87914 ай бұрын
-AIDS Ride: 575-miles San Francisco to Los Angeles. -Cycle for the Cause: 275-miles Boston to NYC -Tour de France: 2200-miles (riders average 100-miles/day) -Pacific Crest Trail: hike 2625-miles in ~5‐months All sorts of people participate in these types of events. They'll likely ride or walk this trail start to finish.
@kenmcclow89634 ай бұрын
I would ride my bike on a 300 mile trail. The Katy Trail in Missouri is over 200 miles. The Cowboy Trail in Nebraska is 300 miles. The Silver Comet in Georgia and Alabama is about 180. The Erie Canal Trail in New York is 330 miles. The GAP and C&O trails together are around 200-300 miles from Pittsburgh to DC. The Palouse to Cascade in Washington is 300 miles and it’s part of the 3700 mile Great American Rail Trail with the GAP and C&O at the other end. I could go on because there are lots of local trails that you can sometimes string together for a longer ride. The cool thing about some of the old railroads is they tended to have towns about every 10 miles so the train could replenish water and wood, or coal, and that is also a good distance for a bike ride to stop for a drink, snack, meal or bed depending on how capable the rider is. Part of the fun of distance riding is finding things to do in the towns along the way too
@Kitty87914 ай бұрын
@@kenmcclow8963 Bay Circuit Trail in Massachusetts now connects 230-miles from Newburyport to Duxbury. I hadn't ridden in ages & about a decade ago did ~50-miles, on an improperly sized hybrid bike, on the Erie Canal Trail. Thankfully, I wore bike shorts, but definitely felt it the next day.
@briangarrison87324 ай бұрын
I did the Erie canal trail in upstate NY with my family last year and thoroughly enjoyed all 360 miles of it
@wmtrader4 ай бұрын
@@Kitty8791 - Professional road bike races on a bike path are not feasible, the pavement is only one car lane wide. Rides like AIDS Ride and Cycle for the Cause would have issues with the lack of services and access to the trail from the road.
@ianstewart83014 ай бұрын
This can be done! Check out Virginia’s Capital Trail, which goes through several localities
@kathyhapgood95894 ай бұрын
This project ignores the concerns of the local Indigenous tribes over untouched sacred sites along the Eel River and directly on the proposed trail. Sites and relics will be gone forever. As for the argument that the trail will bring tourist revenue, I'm not convinced. People hiking in the back country travel light. Families camp or stay in motels and Airb&Bs. They go to the grocery stores, gift shops, restaurants, gas stations. Our small towns have cracked and broken streets and sidewalks that look unwelcoming and need funding for repairs to help with tourism. The idea is wonderful but at what cost?
@emergedbirch8484 ай бұрын
You are really a hater it’s just a trail lady trump 2024
@kathyhapgood95894 ай бұрын
@@emergedbirch848 Just a lover of our local indigenous people and their fight to hold on to what little is left.
@jasonlee-os1qi4 ай бұрын
Fantastic!
@FadedSTEELERSfan4 ай бұрын
great a 300 mile homeless encampment.
@VF180s4 ай бұрын
It will be nice but most likely going to be a new homeless encampment like what happened along Santa Rosa creek trail😢
@freddiecarr76024 ай бұрын
Stores closing, homeless rising, national guard needed in hot spots, pop-up street takeovers, drug use in public, tourists hiking the poop trail and they want to build a new trail------W---T----F---
@ShoeString134 ай бұрын
Different train of thought. SF/
@celebrityrog4 ай бұрын
You realize the plan of this was back in the Reagan Administration. Long before the issues we have today. But since you mention it, what are you personally doing to help keep stores open, homelessness down and curbing drug use? What constructive solutions do you have?
@frankmacleod25654 ай бұрын
you're talking about LA and San Francisco. California is a big state
@ShoeString134 ай бұрын
Good question. You should learn what it is. Thanks for asking. SF/
@ShoeString134 ай бұрын
-also we already did this in Texas.
@markrobinowitz84734 ай бұрын
The nearby Willits bypass (only a couple miles long) cost about three hundred million dollars and directs traffic away from Willits businesses. Bike paths are much cheaper. And by the time this project may be done we may see substantially higher costs for energy since fossil fuels are finite (as in, they're running out, not that most people want to think about that).
@martinantonio27604 ай бұрын
Sounds fun.. when can I run it…. lol
@gigginbig34 ай бұрын
It will be known as californias giant homeless camp because let’s be honest a nature trail in this state at these times is probably not such a good idea lol
@TreDeuce-qw3kv4 ай бұрын
Reality; The homeless stay as near as they can to food and services. In other words... in Urban environments. Since there will be no vehicle access, the mobile homeless won't be an issue.
@gigginbig34 ай бұрын
@@TreDeuce-qw3kv I beg to differ if it starts in San Francisco, then you can definitely guarantee a miles worth of this trail will be crowded, but I could be wrong and hopefully I am
@ExcitedSnowMountain-jt4gq4 ай бұрын
Homeless camping grounds . 😅
@jlo2o1994 ай бұрын
Exactly why it will be. Sketch
@TubeYouTakashi4 ай бұрын
This is very great plan for society.
@DemPilafian4 ай бұрын
So now we are calling our rural areas *_"impoverished communities"?_* Seriously? I'm all for working to improve everyone's opportunities and end poverty, but we really need to put an end to this ridiculous labeling and stereotyping. City dwellers on average do make more money, but rural people are not automatically poor. America is a very PROSPEROUS and WEALTHY country. Let's stop this narrative that everyone here is poor and repressed.
@katwashere1944 ай бұрын
We did this in Oregon but on a smaller scale. It’s awesome!
@TheMontagPress4 ай бұрын
300 Miles. $100M. A couple of decades? Sounds like a boondoggle.
@gorongo42024 ай бұрын
The data show physical and mental health benefits, better social cohesion, economic opportunity for locals, among other things as is evidenced by other rails to trails projects. What’s data support your opinion? Help us understand this topic better.
@LuckyBaldwin7774 ай бұрын
Looks like it would be more fun for gas powered rail carts.
@travisjanz47384 ай бұрын
People will be living on that trail illegally as soon as it’s done
@FurthermoreJack4 ай бұрын
Rail trails are the death of high speed rail
@frankmacleod25654 ай бұрын
this line has been abandoned for decades
@user-ke9yk5qp3u4 ай бұрын
Good! We won't use them anyways! High speed rail to Humboldt? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@wmtrader4 ай бұрын
@@frankmacleod2565 - the railway could be repaired and put back into service for passenger and freight trains. It would reduce truck and car traffic on highway 101. It would bring a lot more tourist to the north coast than what a 300-mile long bike patch could ever do.
@frankmacleod25654 ай бұрын
@@wmtrader Take a look at the history of the railroad. I've surveyed sections of it in 3 counties and have a contract to survey a 10 mile stretch right now. The railway would have to be built, not re-built. The cost would be prohibitive given the expected amount of use the train would receive. We get plenty of tourists here as it is, but thanks
@wmtrader4 ай бұрын
@@frankmacleod2565 - I know the railroad's history and I know the area. The cost would not be prohibitive and it would be cheaper than making improvements to highway 101 to accommodate the current and future demand.
@jlo2o1994 ай бұрын
Sounds like a sketchy trail
@k.chriscaldwell41414 ай бұрын
Get mugged in the woods trail.
@sideslash69384 ай бұрын
Lol I bet it’ll be horrible if it’s anywhere near San Francisco, I’d probably get robbed first step into the woods
@Pppaajwjaow4 ай бұрын
Woah I’m definitely gonna try it
@AladeenZ324 ай бұрын
I'm sure this won't be a huge waste of money and be full of homeless people
@ianstewart83014 ай бұрын
Oh man! That’s so cool!
@anthonygermano93634 ай бұрын
Watch out for the Cartels.
@frankmacleod25654 ай бұрын
cartels left town when the price of weed plummeted
@vera024 ай бұрын
Green rush ended in 2017 cartel been gone for a while. They set up shop in Colorado and Michigan where the laws are more relaxed.
@kathleenmccarthy84184 ай бұрын
So exciting! 😃
@DemPilafian4 ай бұрын
So now we are calling our rural areas *_"impoverished communities"?_* Oh please! I'm all for working to improve everyone's prosperity and end poverty, but we really need to put an end to this ridiculous labeling and stereotyping. City dwellers on average do make more money, but rural people are not automatically poor. America is a very PROSPEROUS and WEALTHY country. Let's stop this tankie narrative that everyone here is poor and repressed.
@redefiningmyself85984 ай бұрын
Many rural areas in this wealthy nation are extremely poor. That is factual.
@DemPilafian4 ай бұрын
@@redefiningmyself8598 The activist literally said "mostly impoverished communities". Ridiculous. America is *NOT* a 3rd world country. Yes, we do have some poverty, but the average income in rural America would be considered wealthy in most countries. We've gotten to the point where you can't talk about anything (even a hiking trail) without someone jumping in and saying, _"But what about the poor?!?"_
@alexsolo40854 ай бұрын
Wont happen, and shouldn’t happen
@Attalla20234 ай бұрын
Who's loosing their land for this
@justachipn30394 ай бұрын
You pathetic D's deleting the local's comments/input is just like you !!! You really do HATE are constitution and free speech thoughts and opinions if they're contrary to yours !!!
@hsuehhs14 ай бұрын
Like the pathetic Conservatives always wanting to ban books because it makes white people uncomfortable
@DingoAteMeBaby4 ай бұрын
kinda sad to see these railroads getting torn up
@frankmacleod25654 ай бұрын
The railroad fell into disrepair in the last century and was abandoned. Very unstable geology in the Eel River canyon
@baybrad41594 ай бұрын
Cool
@InTheYear4 ай бұрын
🏃♂️ 🥾 🏔️ 🏕️
@davidjackson72814 ай бұрын
The right of way should be converted to high speed rail.
@frankmacleod25654 ай бұрын
it would cost billions
@davidjackson72814 ай бұрын
@@frankmacleod2565 so?
@frankmacleod25654 ай бұрын
@@davidjackson7281 and, California is already building a high-speed rail, down in the valley which is much more highly populated. A high speed rail to Humboldt, which is not highly populated, would be a waste of public funds in my opinion, given the other pressing needs this state faces at the moment. This is just my opinion
@Mr1520084 ай бұрын
@@frankmacleod2565Maybe not high speed rail but a rail connection would benefit both Eureka & the Bay Area. The greater Eureka area is an amazing summer getaway from rising temperatures in the Bay Area (it’s the only place that stays 65 in the summer besides parts of SF). On the other side, the economy is desperate for tourists; it’s beautiful to visit but it’s locked behind 6 hours of driving. Bottom line: It’s not a state priority but it should be one of those New Deal public works projects
@frankmacleod25654 ай бұрын
@@Mr152008 again, the low expected use of such a train does not justify the incredibly high cost of constructing such a line. They tried it already. It failed. Too costly to maintain the railroad through all that canyon.
@TheFrogfeeder4 ай бұрын
Soooo, there’s not a $73+billion deficit?? It’s nice that us California taxpayers have all this extra tax money for extravagant and completely unnecessary things like this….
@frankmacleod25654 ай бұрын
budget deficits come and go. The GDP of the state last year was in the trillions
@justachipn30394 ай бұрын
Nice idea, but the cost will be 10x what they "figure" !!! Oh there will be this "unforeseen" bs that actually isn't... and they will be a wrecking ball all the way !!! Not only all of that... but the administrative cost will be staggering to the point of absurd !!!
@k.chriscaldwell41414 ай бұрын
And, if EVER completed, a surprise toll/“fee” to use. Complete with “fee” enforcers jumping out and writing tickets. No, I’m not joking.
@wmtrader4 ай бұрын
@@k.chriscaldwell4141 - contracts on the 14-mile bike path/trail segment from Eureka to Arcata but not on the 300-mile segment from Eureka to Santa Rosa.
@justachipn30394 ай бұрын
All comment screen shoot's saved to censuring file !!!