CityofGoletaSource: City of Goleta
Union Pacific will be replacing rail along various stretches of the railroad tracks in Oxnard, Ventura, Carpinteria, Goleta and Santa Barbara, California. This work is necessary maintenance to maintain the safe operation of passenger and freight service. Approximately 40 miles of track will be replaced along this corridor. During construction activities, nearby residents will hear additional horn sounding from the trains. This is required by law during construction activities. They also will hear construction noise as work is being done, including equipment with back-up warning devices. There also will be bright lights used to illuminate work areas.
When
Maintenance activities will begin Jan. 6, 2021, and crews will work evenings from 9:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. This work could not be done during daylight hours due to passenger rail on this corridor, which could not establish bus-bridges due to the pandemic. Workers will be on an 8-day-on, 6-day-off schedule.
Crews will normally work from Tuesday through Tuesday, but will initially begin on Wednesday (Jan. 6) due to the holiday.
Where
Work will begin with replacing several small rail segments from Oxnard to Santa Barbara. Once this is completed, crews will begin replacing rail in Goleta, Santa Barbara and Montecito, and will continue to San Luis Obispo. Crews will move from south to north.
Union Pacific appreciates the community’s patience and support during this project. This work is critical for the continued safe operation of trains along this corridor.
They should also clean out the homeless camps that are on their right-of-way.
JGR, Wikipedia says we are #3 in freight tonnage, behind China and Russia. Where did you get your data from? I notice those countries are similar to us in being pretty big and spread out. They still should figure out how to use rail more and only use trucks for local delivery.
Need to install double tracks and grade separated crossings everywhere along their system. Then we can move goods by fuel efficient rail instead of wasting our money on semis and the road repairs required by the damage they cause. This would be a great infrastructure project; it would also have to include a jobs program for the truckers that we would throw out of work.