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Posted 07 February 2016 - 09:24 PM

Seven Days, Burlington, VT 2/3:
 

Plans for a Railroad's Freight Facility Outrage Shelburne

 

The town of Shelburne is feeling railroaded. Literally.

 

Vermont Railway has been chugging full speed ahead to build a freight storage and distribution yard on the west side of Route 7, a mile north of the village center.

 

The facility — two 50,000-square-foot road-salt sheds, a fuel island and tanks, a rail spur, and parking for up to 30 trucks — would replace a comparable Vermont Railway operation on Briggs Street in Burlington, where City Market/Onion River Co-op plans to open a second store.

 

Vermont Rail plans to bypass local and state Act 250 review under a federal exemption designed to preserve interstate commerce  .  .  .    

 

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At least one Shelburne resident supports the project. David Wulfson, president of Vermont Railway, lives on Webster Road just east of the parcel, which his late father purchased decades ago. Wulfson vowed to use the railroad's legal firepower to push the facility through and insisted it will be a "Cadillac" project.

 

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