For half a century, a four-block stretch of former rail line through Southwest Berkeley has been fenced off and neglected — weedy, overgrown and mostly unused due to the soil that’s laced with heavy metals like arsenic.
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Now, city crews are remediating the quarter-mile portion of the old railbed between Ward and Blake streets, hauling away toxic soil and preparing the land to be turned into community gardens, a playground and a new dog park…