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Amtrak service north of Seattle suspended
Is there any plan or aspiration to make this route less landslide susceptible?
Only the 50th time in the past year
This landslide prone section needs a permaent fix. Even moderate rains make the hillside unstable. Enviormentaliist don’t want the natural hillside and trees disturbed and BNSF was fined for cutting trees to reduce some of the problems in the landslide section.
That really needs a permanent fix as has been said here. If this were a highway, it would have been fix decades ago.
If the problem of getting it fixed is the enviormentalists than make some kind of win-win deal.Like plant a few hundred trees at some other location.I do not know the location so that is just an example.Locals should be able to better think of a good deal that would make all involved happy.
There’s a reason why the hiway doesn’t run along the foot of an unstable bluff, but rather on top of it and well back from the edge of the cliff. This way it doesn’t need frequent maintenance as does the railway. There are ways to fix the unstable slope, but they’re very expensive and will require the taking of some of those expensive homes along the bluff.