Opening tracks for public use?

摘要

The New York Times ran an interesting article on Jan. 2, "In the Bronx, Test-Driving a Plan to Open Railroad Tracks to the Public." The article described an effort by a group of local residents, historians and, of course, train enthusiasts, who are working to gain public access to little-used or unused tracks in the Bronx and New York City. They see this as a way "to repur-pose stretches of little-used or abandoned railroad tracks for recreational use. They envision opening the tracks to everyone with their own rail car, or access to one, which, like the transformation of the old Manhattan freight line into the High Line park, could potentially draw tourists and dollars to an economically struggling neighborhood."