The Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit Project is a public passenger rail project located in San Francisco’s North Bay. In 2003, Assembly Bill 2224 created the SMART Special District. The project will provide rail service along 70 miles of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad alignment. Utilizing the publicly owned railroad right of way, the rail project will serve fourteen stations, from Cloverdale in Sonoma County to the San Francisco-bound ferry terminal in Larkspur, Marin County.
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The purpose of this website is to provide various reasons why the SMART project should not be allowed to continue. Although most of the materials found here are generated by other, there are some that have been created by STOPSMART. The various sources are identified with each document.
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The objective of this STOPSMART generated presentation is to provide a compelling argument to convince the respective decision makers and others in the Federal, State of California, and Local Governments that recent and significant developments have rendered the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit Agency (SMART) unable to comply with long standing Federal Regulations, thus forbidding their planned passenger train operations over the Northwestern Pacific Railroad alignment.
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Department of
Transportation
Federal Railroad Administration
Federal Transit Administration
49 CFR Parts 209 and 211
Shared Use of the Tracks of the General
Railroad System by Conventional
Railroads and Light Rail Transit Systems;
Notice and Final Rule
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This document is the transcript of an email exchange I had with the FRA Shared Use Project manager. In it you will discover that SMART's alleged belief that they can operate with freight without temporal separation is ridiculous. Then name of the FRA official is hidden in order to protect his privacy. Principals to this matter may contact me for this information.
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