Legal Opinion
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Co. v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided June 11, 2001PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MIRARCHI, Senior Judge.
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Company (Wheeling Railway) appeals from an order of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) directing Wheeling Railway to, inter alia, remove the existing rail-highway crossing bridge and construct a new bridge at its sole costs, as recommended by the administrative law judge (ALJ).
The issues on appeal are: (1) whether the PUC’s authority to regulate rail-highway crossings and allocate costs of constructing and maintaining such crossings pursuant to Sections 2702 and 2704 of the Public Utility Code (Code), as amended, 66 Pa.C.S. §§…
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