The San Diego Union-Tribune, 8/20:
Railway trespassers targeted for tickets
Enhanced enforcement started this month, with 84 tickets issued in 15 days
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 WechterNorth 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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