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#1 CNJRoss

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Posted 29 August 2016 - 06:12 PM

The San Diego Union-Tribune, 8/20:
 

Railway trespassers targeted for tickets

Enhanced enforcement started this month, with 84 tickets issued in 15 days

 

 

B88195808Z.1_20160819191103_000G4ESRJ4R. A southbound train passes 11th Street in Del Mar on Friday as a surfer heads down to cross the tracks for reach the beach. — Bill Wechter

North County — The chief of enforcement at the North County Transit District has a message for folks who cross or walk along local train tracks: Don’t do it.

 

The transit district is cracking down and more actively ticketing trespassers along the Sprinter light rail line and the coastal rail corridor, much to the chagrin of people who zip across the tracks to get to the beach.

 

Jaime Becerra, the district’s enforcement chief, said last week that the “glaring problem” of people on the tracks has been on rise. Engineers are forced to take action, from horn blasts to emergency stops, at least three times a day.

 

As the number close calls ticked up, the district has taken up what Becerra called “a low-tolerance approach

 

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Posted 07 September 2016 - 08:29 PM

KGTV San Diego, CA 9/6:

Railroad crossing crack down angers residents

 

DEL MAR, Calif. -- Del Mar residents are demanding the city provides them with access to the beach and bluffs, this after a recent crackdown on those who cross the train tracks to get to the beach.
 
The North County Transit District began stepping up enforcement Aug. 1 against people who cross or walk along the tracks through the coastal corridor. The San Diego County Sheriff's Department is ticketing people who trespass. Violators could be fined up to $500 and face a maximum of six months in jail.
 
"I think it's ridiculous, I think it's blown way out of proportion," said Lisa Ruh, who lives above the bluffs in Del Mar. "The days when the police aren't here, everybody does the same access that they did before, it's not stopping anyone.”

 

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Posted 18 September 2016 - 05:53 PM

KGTV San Diego, CA 9/15:
 

Del Mar residents protest fines for railroad track crossings

 

DEL MAR, Calif. - Dozens of people upset about steep fines issued to people who cross the train tracks to get to the beach in Del Mar took their case to the transit agency Thursday afternoon.

The North County Transit District started enforcing the no trespassing law Aug. 1. Since then, sheriff's deputies have issued 120 citations and have given out 410 warnings. Fines can be as high as $500.

A petition with nearly 600 signatures was presented to the North County Transit District on Thursday.

 

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Posted 28 September 2020 - 11:52 PM

San Diego, CA Reader, 9/9/16:


 

    Del Mar train-track crossers being ticketed  

 

 

 

It used to be easier to get to the beach in Del Mar, and most residents wish they could turn back the clock. All they want is a convenient way to cross the railroad tracks to reach the beach and bluffs, but since August, everyone from surfers to dog walkers is getting a crash course in safety — in the form of tickets.

 

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Posted 28 September 2020 - 11:54 PM

San Diego, CA Reader, 1/21/20:


 

   Safe or not, crossing tracks in Del Mar isn't trespassing  

 

 

 

Del Mar officials want the trains off the bluffs. Transit officials want the people off the tracks. Neither side is succeeding, and with the number of trains increasing from 50 to 79 this year, the threat of accidents hangs over both.

 

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Posted 28 September 2020 - 11:56 PM

San Diego, CA Reader, 9/28/20:


 

 

   Good-bye, easy walking to Del Mar beach    

 

 

 

 

There's only one place to cross the railway legally to get to the beach in Del Mar. But instead of adding more safe crossings, transit officials want to add 1.4 miles of fencing along the bluffs starting this fall.

 

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Posted 10 November 2020 - 10:41 AM

RT&S 11/10/20

 
NCTD moves forward with fence construction on one portion along bluffs; delays much longer section, suggests trail
 

 

The North County Transit District (NCTD) will wait on installing a large portion of a new fence along the Del Mar bluffs to prevent pedestrians from crossing the track. Construction of a smaller section, however, will move forward as planned.

 

A fence will be built in Oceanside, where residents have not complained about the project. That portion of the barrier is eighth-tenths of a mile long between Loma Alta Creek and Buena Vista Lagoon.  The NCTD is asking the city of Del Mar to help pay for a decorative fence in its portion rather than a chain-link fence. The board also wants to use the railroad right-of-way to construct a trail. ...

 

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Posted 21 January 2022 - 09:31 AM

The San Diego (CA) Union-Tribune, 1/20/22

Del Mar, Coastal Commission challenge transit district’s plan to keep people off railroad

 

 

Del Mar residents hoping to continue their century-old practice of illegally hopping the railroad tracks to reach the beach ran into a wall this week.

 

North County Transit District took a stance opposed by nearly all of the city’s 4,200 inhabitants, the state Coastal Commission, the environmental group Surfrider and probably others by saying no more. It will build a fence.

 

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Posted 17 March 2022 - 05:18 PM

RT&S, 3/17/22

Rail Group On Air: Both sides of the fence

 

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RT&S Editor-in-Chief Bill Wilson digs deeper into a rail fence controversy in Del Mar, Calif.

 

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