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Originally Posted by Clogston29
really the best advise. can't see you winning access here. best to let sleeping dogs lie. the rail's insurance company will never let them knowingly allow trespassing or, worse still, endurse people cutting across the tracks. if they ever extend passenger rail down there, forget about. they'll be fences and razor wire everywhere.
and for those saying, "let them try to enforce it" and the like, its really not that hard to do - take away parking, tow cars, and make a few arrests. its basically like saying "let them try to enforce speed limits", you throw a few cops out there and its basically done.
they also have the argument that there is legal, safe access to the canal at each end and an access road running between the two. they are not denying access to the canal, they're just denying easier access.
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Trust me on this---there is nothing more certain than No Parking postings along Sandwich Road if things don't change. All it's going to take is one fisherman getting clipped by a passing car one morning. Once the turn outs are full--as they will inevitably get once the plugging bite hits cell phone/tackle shop/internet hotwires, guys park along the shoulder where there's literally a foot or two between them and cars zipping by at 60 mph. It is inevitable that someone will get killed some day if this keeps up, and that's when you'll lose parking access along the road.
The police department in Bourne doesn't want to break balls. Lots of them fish, including Chief Baldwin. But people force their hands, and they have no choice. They didn't want to issue parking tickets at Savorey Avenue (stone church) last spring, but the residents complained about noisy fisherment waking them up at 4 AM so they had no choice. The railroad has had several things to complain about, including kids playing chicken with the trash train in Monument Beach last year. Just keep things in perspective--this was one guy who the railroad conceded may have gone too far. Use your heads--if a train is approaching, you'll hear it. Don't try to save 45 seconds of fishing time by rushing over the tracks in front of an approaching train--and for God's sake, lose the idiotic idea of some sort of mass protest, or mooning, or whatever. Just let this die, for everyone's sake.
The reason the railroad mentions "legal" access points is because these are considered grade crossings, and there are whistle posts down the track which tell the engineer to sound the horn to warn crossing cars and pedestrians.