January 16, 2017

FRA Claims No Tribal Land Crossings – but They’re Wrong

SteeringCommittee /Charlestown Rhode Island, Mailbox, Railroad EIS

Detail map of Tribal Land in green. — Narragansett Tribal Land in green, proposed rail line path in red dashed lines.

The Federal Railroad Administration claims in their Tier 1 Final EIS that from Washington DC to Boston they do not impact any tribal land. In Charlestown however, the proposed new train route does pass through Narragansett Tribal land in the vicinity of Kings Factory Road. In addition, the position of the proposed tracks along the length of the Indian Cedar Swamp parcel through the Carter Preserve will diminish the quality of wildlife habitat in both the Carter Preserve and the Indian Cedar Swamp parcel.

Tribal Land in dark green showing location in context to rails and other conservation land. Boxed area is the same as detail map above.

The Indian Cedar Swamp is one of about six parcels that make up Narragansett Tribal Land in Charlestown. This map does not depict all Narragansett land, only the parcel most impacted by the new rail proposal.

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1 Comment

Margaret Townsend
January 17, 2017 @ 3:26 pm
This proposal is an absolute disaster! No thought has been made to the damage that would be done to our communities, all in the name of saving some time. The lives of the people whose homes/farm would be ruined are NOT less important than the lives of the people on those fast-moving trains. Spend that money, not on making a new track-line through our neighborhoods, but rather on making the existing track stronger for high-speed rail travel.