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The Tracks."Conrail, which owns the trench that slices west to east between E. Tusculum and E. Gurney streets in the city's Kensington and Fairhill neighborhoods, moved in heavy construction equipment early Monday and built a staging area near Kensington Avenue.It marks the beginning of a one month clean up project that will include removal of tons of debris and trash, countless used syringes and a lockdown of the trench's perimeter. The Tracks, as they're known to drug users, is a freight train trench owned by Conrail that runs for about 3/4 a mile from N. 2nd Streets to Kensington Avenue.Stretching for nearly three-quarters of a mile, the trench has for years been a place for the drug addicted to get high mostly out of sight from police and neighbors. The steep earthen sides are shielded from the street by trees and heavy brush. Those who venture down onto the tracks are at risk of becoming victims of sexual assault, robbery and homicide.On its western end, adjacent to and under the N. 2nd Street bridge, a homeless encampment — known as a El Campamento — has shacks made out of wooden pallets. In some cases, people sleep on mattresses among trash, human excrement and used needles.NBC10 went inside the encampment and trench as part of the award-winning digital investigation, Generation Addicted. With the heroin and opioid crisis worsening, overdo... (NBC 10 Philadelphia)
Councilwoman Maria Quiñones-Sánchez said Monday morning, hours after contractors began cleanup work along the Gurney Street railroad tracks in Kensington, which had become a trash-strewn camp for heroin users and a ghastly representation of the nation’s opioid crisis.Conrail, which owns the tracks, deployed construction equipment at 7:30 a.m. to commence clearing the grounds of what neighborhood residents call El Campamento. Much of the initial work seemed to take place on the periphery of the camp, with bulldozers flattening a “staging area” for construction vehicles to the east, and crews clearing overgrown shrubs and trees above the sunken tracks.Most of the camp’s inhabitants had already left — some into treatment, others to city-funded housing, and others likely searching for somewhere else to live. Still, small groups of people, often in pairs, could be seen Monday morning wandering through the steep embankments of the tracks, illustrating the challenges of completing the cleanup safely and ensuring its effects will last.MICHAEL BRYANT / Staff Photographer Charito Morales (right) points out to Sam Tiru of the Public Health Management Corp. wher... (Philly.com)
What about the Air Bridge?As usual, Philadelphia has an optimistic expectation of its deal with Conrail to clean up the heroin needle gulch in Kensington and Fairhill (“At last, a deal,” Friday). There was no mention of the Air Bridge, the Puerto Rican network that has exported thousands of drug addicts to Philadelphia (and other cities), which fueled this massive humanitarian tragedy.What is being done to stop this assault on our city that exacerbated the problem that we have to pay to clean up? I am not optimistic.— Ken Richman, PhiladelphiaMillions misuse opioidsThe details in in the story, “A denial of misuse” (June 12) were mind-boggling. I was reminded of a famous quote by Albert Einstein: “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it yourself.”As an engineer, I cherish details, but we really need to boil down the opioid crisis:U.S. population: 325 millionAmericans (age 12 and older) misusing opioid pain relievers: 12.5 millionOne in 26 Americans are misusing opioid pain drugs.That is easy to understand.— Dan Feeney, West ChesterPainkillers have a purposeOur news is filled with discussions of the serious opio... (what about Air Bridge? - Philly.com)
