He saw a "slow order" – a slower speed limit at the crossing – as the short-term fix to the sight-line issue. They're blaming Amtrak for this," said Williston's Carl Fowler, who has organized rail tours and worked with passenger-rail advocacy groups for 50 years.
The only way to address that need, she said, "is to move the building." The depot sits just a few feet from the tracks, creating a sight-line problem: The engineer on the southbound Ethan Allen – but not the northbound – can't see the northbound lanes of the highway well.Īmtrak has told AOT that correcting the safety risk posed by the station represents an "immediate need," Trini Brassard, assistant director in AOT's Division of Policy, Planning and Intermodal Development (CPPID), told a well-attended New Haven selectboard meeting on January 19.
The process leading to the relocation proposal and grant application began with a question of safety. The commission is expected to decide on the requests on August 4 and announce the recipients by August 9.
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It's one of 25 applications seeking a total of slightly more than $9 million in funding.īut only about half that $9 million will be available for Vermont-bound awards, which will come through the federal Northern Border Regional Commission.ĪCCD will be conveying a list of approved applications to Governor Phil Scott by week's end next week he is expected to approve the list in full – or in part – and send NRBC the finalized requests for Vermont projects next week. The Agency of Commerce and Community Development has been evaluating the merits of the grant request. DHP, which prepared the grant application on the town's behalf, declined to provide an estimate of the total anticipated cost. That suggests a total bill in the $750,000 range.
Utility lines will have to removed and put back in place, a new foundation will have to be built, a project manager will likely be hired, and safety issues will need to be addressed – all representing further expense.Īn earmark of $400,000 was inserted into the state budget to help the effort, and the Town of New Haven, to which DHP expects to transfer the structure's ownership in conjunction with the move, is seeking a federal grant of $350,000 to complement the state contribution. The Division of Historic Preservation (DHP), which owns the structure, has received bids of $440,000 to $600,000 for the project – but that's just for the building-movers. According to one building-mover who has estimated the relocation costs, the depot weighs about 200 tons. Under the plan, the brick building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places and stands, with its chimneys, some 29 feet tall, would move about 1.7 miles to a new location adjacent to the town library, on New Haven's North Street. That's likely to take place early in 2022. Google Maps screen shot of New Haven depot on Route 7.Īt the behest of the Agency of Transportation (AOT), the 1850s-vintage railroad depot alongside Route 7 in New Haven Junction is likely to be moved in preparation for the extension of Amtrak's Ethan Allen Express train service north to Burlington from its current northern terminus, Rutland.
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