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Re: The twisted saga behind California’s bullet train
Author: Carol L Voss
Date: 01-15-2015 - 14:25
Ed Workman Wrote:
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> Tejon Ranch a problem?
> My spies in the SJV told me, before all this came
> up, that those folks made a deal with California
> to give up land in exchange for development
> 'permission'.
> IIRC there is a major development plan extant that
> covers the flatter land along 138 west of the
> railroad, characterized as a 'new city'. If those
> are facts, then I would expect TR to support the
> dogleg route but not really care about the 'State
> Wilderness' they provided in exchange. Hey what's
> another little dogleg west of Oban, with a modest
> depot.
> Noooooow leaving for SYYLL-mar, Saugus, Acton,
> Vincent, Palmdale, Oban, ROZ-amond Mojave
> Tehachapi [ there's a mega development plan for
> the north side, north of and east of Cable]
> Edison, Allensworth.........
5 or 6 years ago we were given a rare tour of the Tejon Ranch which included a PR presentation of a new city on the south side of the Grapevine and supposedly land given to protect environment and blah blah. The PR guy was a former tv news anchor in Bakersfield and i asked him about protecting the condors and he gave me a puzzled look and said in all his 12 years there he had never seen one. Yeah,right. Our son and his Grimmway coworkers used to hunt there regularly and saw condors very frequently. Tejon Ranch is a nation unto itself.
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> Tejon Ranch a problem?
> My spies in the SJV told me, before all this came
> up, that those folks made a deal with California
> to give up land in exchange for development
> 'permission'.
> IIRC there is a major development plan extant that
> covers the flatter land along 138 west of the
> railroad, characterized as a 'new city'. If those
> are facts, then I would expect TR to support the
> dogleg route but not really care about the 'State
> Wilderness' they provided in exchange. Hey what's
> another little dogleg west of Oban, with a modest
> depot.
> Noooooow leaving for SYYLL-mar, Saugus, Acton,
> Vincent, Palmdale, Oban, ROZ-amond Mojave
> Tehachapi [ there's a mega development plan for
> the north side, north of and east of Cable]
> Edison, Allensworth.........
5 or 6 years ago we were given a rare tour of the Tejon Ranch which included a PR presentation of a new city on the south side of the Grapevine and supposedly land given to protect environment and blah blah. The PR guy was a former tv news anchor in Bakersfield and i asked him about protecting the condors and he gave me a puzzled look and said in all his 12 years there he had never seen one. Yeah,right. Our son and his Grimmway coworkers used to hunt there regularly and saw condors very frequently. Tejon Ranch is a nation unto itself.
