91-a_to_dncr_bos_etc_regarding_ohrv_use_of_state_roads_batch_2
Batch 2
Aril 22, 2020 BOT permission to Mudhawgs to operate registered ATVs on the Hillsboro-Bennington Recreational Rail Trail for maintenance only.
DOT rules for requesting a rail-trail agreement on an abandoned state-owned corridor
September 23, 2020: "The Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Department of Natural & Cultural Resources (DNCR) are in receipt of your respective correspondences, which express an interest in exploring the use of portions of the outof-service state-owned railroad corridor from Columbia Bridge Road in Columbia to Simms Stream to NH Route
26/Bridge Street in Colebrook."
October 14, 2020: Columbia to DOT stating their plan is for non-motorized use of rail trail
November 23, 2020: Colebrook to DOT; hoping to decrease OHRV traffic on town roads by opening rail trail for OHRV use.
December 1, 1998 Littleton to Groveton line will be purchased with Transportation Enhancement (TE) funds (which preclude motorized travel. (Snowmobiles are now permitted on TE-funded trails.))
January 19, 2017: DOT tells Chris Gamache from BOT and Andrew Dorsett, Littleton Town Manager, that the Littleton to Bethlehem rail trail cannot be opened to OHRVs.
January 26, 2017: Andrew Dorsett asks DOT if Littleton can buy OHRV rights from FHWA
April 21, 2017 BOT and DOT "But, now we have this issue of it being funding in part by TE funds which do not allow OHRV access. If I cannot have OHRVs on this section of rail corridor I cannot justify spending my OHRV land account funds on it. We will try to work through that issue here, but it is an issue that will be front and center in the very near future. ."
December 19, 2019: DOT reminds Chris Gamache, (BOT) that DOT informed him and Andrew Dorsett, Littleton Town Manager in 2017 that the Littleton to Groveton rail line was TE-funded and not available for OHRV use.
December 19, 2019 Chris Gamache (BOT) to DOT: "You guys should have been all over us about this. We have continually been talking about the uncertainty and no paperwork about it. I still want to see what DOT has in the files for this; from where to where is TE? No one can answer that question and DOT does not seem to have any old files to confirm anything about this funding. Sorry, but I going to demand to see the files for this. We still want to pull rails for snowmo use but there is no funding for it. Chris ."
May 30 2020 communication to DNCR re Littleton Rail Trail quoting Chris Gamache (BOT) "Future discussions will involve use management, such as possibly rerouting ATVs in some areas, the possible use of private land or roads, and coordination and commmunicating between the town and state on regulations, enforcement, marketing, and signage"..."We really need to treat this as a partnership"
October 9, 2020 DOT to Hinsdale re. tree on rail trail
November 25, 2020 Colebrook support for rail trail proposal
June 22, 2020: communitions re Columbia portion of proposed rail trail conversion.
July 6 2016: DOT permission for driveway permit in averhill
April 22, 2020 cover email for Mudhawgs working on rail trail
October 2019 Proposed Rail-Trail Franklin to Weirs Beach Economc Study, City of Laconia
July 23, 2020 BOT "Motorized wheeled vehicles may only be used on the rail trails in Cheshire County for maintenance and enforcement
purposes."
July 2, 2020: DOT meeting "I would like to setup a meeting (either in-person or via Zoom) to discuss the northern limits of state ownership and NH Central use in the Colebrook-Columbia area on the Beecher Falls Branch. The Department has been approached by the towns and DNCR Bureau of Trails over the last few years (with a more recent re-inquiry) to ask about OHRV use and/or bike-ped use in Columbia & Colebrook.."
Question on whther electric company has an underground easement on the Seacoast Greenway Rail Trail and handicapped access "In the meeting I referenced ADA-related court rulings around “Other Power Driven Motorized Vehicles” . Trails must allow folks with mobility disabilities to use OPDMDs, but the trail management entities may do an analysis of trails safety and define allowable types of OPDMDs. In the absence of such an analysis someone with a disability would be able to bring any ATV onto a trail, and determining who has a legitimate disability to allow them to do that apparently gets very sticky from an enforcement standpoint."
April 22, 2020: Clarification of where Mudhawgs are working on Hillsboro line
re_new_england_mud_hawgs_atv_working_on_hillsboro_line_redacted_pi.pdf
April 22, 2020: Questions on work party size and Covid for Hillsboro line maintenance work
December 21. 2020" DOT to F&G; "The railroad corridor from Canterbury to Tilton is seeing a lot of snowmobiles trespassing on NHDOT property from a
report by our local railroad operator. As you may know this line is now an active railroad year round and along with trespassing, also very dangerous to be recreating on an active railroad line. Appears a lot are getting on/off at the Sargent Street crossing in Northfield and also at the McDonalds in Tilton. Although the line was recently plowed by our operator, the trespassing packs the remaining snow into the railroad components at the switches (making maintenance difficult) and also damages our bridge cross timbers as they now don’t have any snowmobile track cleat protection.."
August 13, 2020 DOT is working on Columbia Rail Trail process.
March 4, 2016: Claremont to DOT requesting a waiver from the restriction fobidding OHRV use on their rail trail.
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