Retracking Metamora
Posted by Jeff Smith
on 6/9/2019, 11:46 pm
So as to not have some here get giddy, let me say there are no plans. I would like to have those experts here give an estimate for the cost to re rail the grade from Lapeer south to a few miles north of Metamora. This would include I-69 overpass and a routing around a church parking lot. There is an ongoing battle locally for truck usage on local roads for gravel mining. Read earlier a congressman or senator from Mancelona is trying to work it to skirt existing law to allow it. Been going on for a long time. Was going to send to our local legislators a somewhat facetious suggestion to meet them part way and retrack the MC/PC grade down to the gravel mine. This would keep trucks off the local roads yet fulfill the dire needs of the state to keep the gravel coming to "fix the damn roads". BTW the grade is about a mile from where this 500 acre site is located.
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