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Resident tells council railroad work at Fourteenth Street crossing left street blocked; city attorney cites easement/legal complexity
Summary
A resident said recent railroad track work left asphalt in the roadway and blocked a public crossing near the county jail; the city said responsibility depends on easements and federal/railroad authority and offered to follow up.
Stanford Kelly, who said he lives at 2614 Fourteenth Street, told the Tuscaloosa City Council that recent railroad track work at the crossing near Sixteenth Street and T.Y. Rogers Jr. Avenue left a section of asphalt that prevents residents from crossing the tracks. "They tore the road up, put down new cross ties, new rails, and left the asphalt in the middle of the road where the public can't go back and forth across the railroad," Kelly said…
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