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Event 129
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State representative Richard Kendall responds to the Falmouth controversy by proposing two important Massachusetts rail trail bills that become law. In 1973, a law requiring that railroad property offered for sale first be offered to a public authority, known as Chapter 161C Section 7. In 1974, a law designed to prevent construction within former railroad ROWs, without prior approval of the MassDOT, to preserve the integrity for future public use, known as Chapter 40 Section 54A. These laws are one reason that Massachusetts has saved more miles of abandoned rail lines in public ownership than any other state. And If such a law had been in place five years earlier, a great deal of expense, time and aggravation could have been avoided.
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