What is happening with the abandoned railroad in downtown Durham that goes under Mangum Street?
• This project was known as the ‘Duke Beltline.’ • Unfortunately the rail company that still owns it, Norfolk Southern, and the city could not arrive at a mutually agreeable price for this corridor. • The money set aside by the city for purchase of this rail corridor has since been reallocated to completing the Third Fork Creek Trail. • Two federal earmarks were set aside for purchase of this corridor. One of them has already been reallocated to completion of the ATT. Another earmark, which is solely for acquisition of rail corridor, hasn’t been used. DOST is asking if there is a way to use this for acquisition of the Panther Creek rail corridor in eastern Durham County.
