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METRO AND CSX RAILROAD ANNOUNCE NEW PROPERTY MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Vacant overgrown lots littered with trash and debris are a common summertime sight for Nashville residents who live next door to railroad tracks, but a new agreement between Metro and CSX Transportation should bring a welcome change of scenery.
Under the new property maintenance agreement announced today, all CSX-owned properties in Metro will be cut and cleaned three times a year instead of once. The affected properties include 24 locations Metro officials identified as complaint “hot spots” due to repeated reports of high grass, dumping and litter from residents.
“The impact this will have on neighborhoods in Metro Nashville is significant because it will help enhance their quality of life,” said Veronica Frazier, executive director of Metro Beautification and Environment (MBEC). “We applaud CSX for their willingness to be responsive to the needs of Nashville residents, and for their commitment to helping us keep Nashville clean and beautiful.”
“We hope this new agreement will assure Metro Nashville Government and members of the entire community that we want to be good neighbors, not absentee land owners,” said Jim Cain, regional coordinator in Tennessee for CSX, whose main offices are in Jacksonville, Fla.
For more than a year, Metro Beautification, along with Metro departments of Codes, Health and Public Works, have been working with CSX officials to improve communication and streamline the coordination of processes so that resident complaints about railroad properties in Nashville can be addressed more quickly and efficiently.
“CSX and area CSX officials are to be commended for voluntarily providing additional maintenance services in our residential neighborhoods, beyond the level which is required of them by Federal, state and local laws," said Terry Cobb, Director of Metro Codes & Building Safety.
“CSX’s effort to maintain 24 of the company’s properties will help address public health issues in Nashville,” added Brent Hager, Director of Environmental Health for Metro Public Health. “The Health Department has found uncontrolled high grass and weeds serve as a breeding ground and cover for a wide range of potentially disease carrying mosquitoes, insects, rodents, as well as poisonous snakes.”
CSX recently signed a new contract with Interstate Property Remediation, a Kentucky-based property maintenance company that will cut and clean the Nashville properties in April, June and August each year.
CSX Transportation Inc. is a principal operating company of CSX Corporation, one of the leading transportation companies, providing rail, intermodal and rail-to-truck transload services. The company's transportation network spans 21,000 miles with service to 23 eastern states and the District of Columbia, and connects to more than 70 ocean, river and lake ports. More information about CSX Corporation and its subsidiaries is available at the company's web site, www.csx.com.
For more information on Metro Beautification and Environment, visit www.nashville.gov/beautification, or call 862-8418.
CSX Railroad Residential Property Locations
- Lyle Court
- Sadler Avenue
- Carter Avenue and Porter Road
- McKennie Avenue
- Chester Avenue and 16th Street
- Curdwood Boulevard
- McMahan Avenue
- Bronte Avenue (West side)
- Cahal and Railroad Streets (both sides)
- Next to 800 West Greenwood
- McGavock Pike (East Nashville)
- South of Harding (both sides, near Radnor Yards)
- Kirkland Avenue and Gallatin Road (both sides)
- Scott Avenue (on North side)
- Harding and Davidson
- Virginia Avenue (both sides)
- Glenrose Avenue and Thompson Lane
- Delmas Avenue
- McAdoo Avenue (Map & Parcel 10401032700)
- Under bridge on Due West Avenue - between South Gallatin Rd. & Gibson Dr.
- West Sharp Avenue, near 817 – street dead ends into railroad tracks
- Division Street (South of Fogg on both sides)
- Regent Drive
- 10th Avenue and Gay Street