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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>Scenic Hudson's proposed "Shoreline Trail" would run along the river's edge next to the train tracks from Dockside to Little Stony Point, and then from Little Stony Point to Breakneck Ridge. Click &gt; above to scroll through the presentation.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>Metro-North requires the trail to be at least 25 feet from the center of the nearest track. As you'll see in the next few slides, there isn't enough room for long sections of the route.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>This view is at the north end of Mayor's Park in Cold Spring. The green line is 25 feet from the center of the nearest track, so the trail would need to be below the green line, i.e. over the river, to meet Metro-North's setback requirements.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>This view is slightly further north, approaching Little Stony Point. On the left is a Metro-North utility hut that requires an additional 6 feet of clearance.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>This diagram of the same section shows how Scenic Hudson's designers propose to dodge infrastructure by building out into the water.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>Things are slightly wider on this section just north of Little Stony Point, but what you see here really is the “best case” along the entire shoreline trail.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>The shoreline narrows as you approach Breakneck Ridge. This is representative of the long stretch as you approach the tunnel. Remember that everything has to be below the green line.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>Here’s another bump-out sketch, this one north of Little Stony Point where there's a Metro-North communications box. In the diagram, notice how narrow the trail is, with barely room for an adult with a child, and a cyclist.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>These pictures show a few of the most challenging sections up close. The workers are clearly having a hard time seeing how or why anyone would build a trail here.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>The trail must be out of "mean high water," shown by the dotted red vertical line, to the greatest extent possible, i.e. everything must be to the right of the line. But Metro-North wants everything as far from the tracks as possible. For long stretches, there just isn't room.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>Metro-North might allow the trail to be closer at specific "pinch points." Here, to stay clear of mean high water the trail is now 15 feet from trains potentially traveling at 80 miles per hour.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>This diagram is from one of the widest sections of shoreline, north of Little Stony Point, but you can see they have to remove most of the existing vegetation, which they’ve indicated by showing it in red.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>This rendering from an internal design presentation shows the trail from a different vantage point. The width of the trail is 10 feet, and it's only 15 feet from the tracks and barely above mean high water.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>Here, they’re suggesting they can minimize vegetation loss by weaving through existing tree clusters. This sounds hopeful, but wait...</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>The X means "remove existing tree," and “clear and grub,” means remove all existing vegetation and remove the roots. According to this schematic, most of the dense vegetation we saw along the edge of the river would be removed.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>The project’s landscape architect provided these images to give people an idea of how the "trail" might look. The Fjord Trail wouldn’t have the same height, but it shows the same elevated boardwalk on a single pile system.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>This is a cross-sectional schematic of the Fjord Trail boardwalk. It shows precast concrete decking 6 inches thick mounted on a concrete girder, which sits on steel piles driven into the shoreline.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>This diagram from the designs shows the 8 foot chain link fence used to separate the trail from the tracks for the sections where it’s not integrated with the trail structure.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>Is it even feasible to build? This table from the project's engineers shows they need to do test bores every 100 feet along the rip-rap shoreline. They would require permits from the DEC to do these test borings and haven’t done them yet.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>When the trail reaches Breakneck Ridge and the tracks go into the tunnel, the trail makes its most grotesque assault on the landscape.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>Here’s the shoreline around Breakneck Ridge as it exists today. Notice the lush vegetation along the river's edge.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>Here’s a diagram from a Scenic Hudson presentation showing a completely transformed shoreline, denuded of almost all vegetation and with large concrete structures in its place.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>Here are a couple of renderings of what this might look like when viewed from the south.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>This rendering from the landscape architect’s website looks remarkably similar (image © SCAPE). Here they're proposing to transform a former industrial site in Staten Island, whereas in our case it's to transform one of the most iconic and sublime views along the Hudson Valley.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>Scenic Hudson will dismiss those renderings as ideas they were brainstorming, but here are the actual design schematics. You now know how to recognize tree removal, clearing, and grubbing. The area would be almost completely cleared of vegetation.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>This shows the extent of the construction within that area. On the right, they reference the “pre-cast concrete plank trail”. In the middle there’s “stone quarried block on precast concrete structure on piles,” and on the left there’s “stacked landscape boulders."</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>Here’s a cross-sectional view or the proposed Breakneck Lower Overlook to really drive home that this is not the trail "envisioned by locals to manage visitation and respect the landscape" (source: https://hhft.org/).</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>From the overlook, the proposed trail continues north around the point to connect to a new bridge over the train tracks just north of the Breakneck tunnel.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fjord Trail South</image:title>
      <image:caption>This iconic view will be lost. We must not let this happen.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>These construction drawings, which were commissioned by Philipstown in 2014, show infrastructure improvements that could be completed at Mayor's Park and along Fair Street, including a new sidewalk to Little Stony Point.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This rendering from the 2015 Fjord Trail Master Plan shows improved sidewalks and shared lane markings for bikers along Fair Street, which HHFT has since abandoned in favor of their boardwalk attraction.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The public right of way along Fair Street approaching Route 9D would allow for the construction of new sidewalks, resolving the current pinch-point that pedestrians experience as they approach Little Stony Point.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This rendering from the 2007 greenway feasibility study shows how a berm with a gently sloping path could be installed at the entrance to Little Stony Point to improve ADA accessibility.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This annotated map from the 2015 Fjord Trail Master Plan shows how the intersection at Fair Street and Route 9D could be redesigned to improve safety and provide more space for pedestrians. HHFT has since abandoned this plan in favor of a roundabout, which they say is necessary to accommodate more cars for planned new parking lots.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Fjord Trail’s plan for 7 paid parking lots totaling up to 654 spaces along Route 9D gives new meaning to the phrase “pay to play.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>As the true costs of the Fjord Trail become clear, we must decide what kind of future we want for the Hudson Highlands.</image:caption>
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