Story in the Telegram today about how CSX is looking for more Freight yards. In case you did not know P & W moved most of their freight yards off Southbridge Street because of all the flooding. Either they could not get insurance anymore or the cost was prohibitive.
All of the Route 146 construction was suppose to alleviate the flooding in these areas, but it did not. We shold be looking for economic stimulus monies to correct this situation. The properties in these areas should be quite valuable since they now interesect with all the major highways, but if they floor every storm?
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Bill,
Are you sure that is why they moved from Southbridge Street?
According to this article, they consolidated the operations on Wiser Avenue due to the economic downturn. Nothing was said about flooding being the reason.
http://www.cmrpc.org/files/Port%20of%20Worcester%20Consolidation.pdf
Flooding after every major rain storm s/b no problemo Senor.
Sell the property to Worcester Common Grd. and then just have them run a dedicated drainage line across all the private property from P&W yard all the way down into teh Blackstone Valley. We can call it the Belleview St. Connection....or better yet b/c it goes down intto the Blackstone Valley.......The French Connection
Speaking of which, how's that Blackstoner Valley Visitors Centaaaah? coming along. Stuck in a bit of a rut? Cant Elmer get this thing funded and completed?
WHT spend thousandss to study a proposed Canal District when the BVVC seems to have fallen off the radar screen?
Dave
There may have been an economic downturn that also caused them to consolidate, but I can tell you without a doubt they were having insurance problems with all the freight getting flooded every storm.
Bottom line I do not see any freight yard coming back to this location until the flooding is resolved.
Bill
From my days as heavy hauler (and I got the hemmorhoids to show for it), I can tell you, that the Southbr St area was also a PIA and back then many of the trailers were 13' high but are now 13' 6"
a. the formerly low bridge on SBr. St. was impassable
b. (not sure about the Miss Worc Diner Bridge also too low?)
c. then if you wanted to head east or south or on to 290 (formerly) the low bridge on Cambr. St was also impassable and still is which meant going out to McKeon Road to Quinsig Vill. to Rte 146 to Rte 20 (to Mrs Macks Bakery...yummie) for morning cawfee stop.
d. dittos for Hammond st RR bridge.
e. also the Bridge near the former Sheldons Harley shoppe
That area also had add'l trucks that although they werent hauling freight out of the P&W yard they were going there to get weighed before heading out on the interstates.
"Road growth means economic growth"....a famous bumper sticker from the days of the constr of the interstate highway system. Worc has had no real highway growth from the late 1960's until the opening of the new Rte 146 roadway in about 2008. A mere 48 years of stagnation. We did have the Plantation St upgrade from Umass to 290 back in the late 1990 to early 2000's....but that aint really highway.
last fall when i was at Visitors Cent property everything was a mess and grafitti every where
I am optimistic that expanding the railyards to Grafton st is real progress for the city, just not the kind of progress that I think most thought we were going for in that part of town. No more athletic fileds along railroad tracks! these areas need to be reserved for freight and the businesses that benefit from receiving vast quantities of freight
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