Engineering Challenges and the High Fill Section

There have been proposals to give the high fill section of the “undesignated section” what is called a hair cut, essentially cutting it down from its narrow width of approximately 14 feet to the 40 feet needed for both a shared-use trail that meets national standards and is ADA compliant and a railroad track. Nick Mercurio, a retired NYS DOT professional, explains why that’s not a reasonable solution.