The latest file on the west switchback records that the docket has returned for review with the exceptions and unresolved objections attached. The existing rule remains in force; officials have not announced a permanent change.
Hessa Tor, route marshal for the west road, said the latest file records 65 switchback closures lasting longer than one bell, compared with 63 in the previous count. The figures cover the entries on the register, not every condition at the site.
Carriers call short closures manageable; masons say repeated traffic shakes loose stone from the same seam. The current record does not settle that disagreement. At the latest public table, residents asked the clerk to keep their account beside the source count. No final finding has been issued.
Varda Kin checked the road crew’s stonefall notices and the mule train delay book against the field notes. The method is to trace the route from the first signal to the final gate receipt; it confirms the entries, but not every interpretation attached to them. The docket is marked WEST-SWITCHBACK-04, and the next check is assigned to a second crew.
The route marshal will time a loaded test after the drain has been cleared. Until that check is complete, the schedule already in force continues to govern.
