A clean-up of the Norfolk and Western Railroad right-of-way, which cuts diagonally through much of the Skinker-DeBaliviere area, is scheduled for April 12 or 19. Mr. John Roach, alderman, announced that Mr. Burns of the Norfolk and Western right-of-way maintenance division agreed that the railroad had an obligation to attend to the right-of-way. Residents bordering the railroad tracks have been meeting to get action on the unsightly weeds which hold wind-blown trash and litter and occasionally burst forth into brush fires.
Mr. Burns said that their workmen will stack the collected trash near the tracks and that an engine will be sent through to pick it up and take it to a disposal point.
Residents are also negotiating with the city to clean up those portions of the slope which are city-owned and where trash also piles up into neighborhood eyesores.
Originally published in The Paper, April 1971.
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