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Re: More Bad News for the Port of Portland
Author: Erik H.
Date: 04-09-2015 - 19:26
David Smith Wrote:
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> Astoria or somewhere in the vicinity would have
> been a much better location for an out-going
> container port.
There is no room in Astoria for a container port.
I don't know why the railfans keep insisting there is...there's room, only if you demolish the entire city of Astoria in the process. There's a reason Tongue Point (built as a Navy seaplane base) has never, ever been able to be sold and developed, save for a Job Corps center, a Coast Guard buoy yard, and one hangar used as an on-again off-again movie studio and warehouse.
The riverfront property to the east is a protected national wildlife refuge. No way any container port, or anything else, is going in there.
To the west you have Fort Stevens, Oregon's most popular State Park. No way are you building anything there (not to mention it is part of the Lewis & Clark National Historic Park complex.) And a couple small piddly towns called Warrenton and Hammond, where people live and have homes.
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> Astoria or somewhere in the vicinity would have
> been a much better location for an out-going
> container port.
There is no room in Astoria for a container port.
I don't know why the railfans keep insisting there is...there's room, only if you demolish the entire city of Astoria in the process. There's a reason Tongue Point (built as a Navy seaplane base) has never, ever been able to be sold and developed, save for a Job Corps center, a Coast Guard buoy yard, and one hangar used as an on-again off-again movie studio and warehouse.
The riverfront property to the east is a protected national wildlife refuge. No way any container port, or anything else, is going in there.
To the west you have Fort Stevens, Oregon's most popular State Park. No way are you building anything there (not to mention it is part of the Lewis & Clark National Historic Park complex.) And a couple small piddly towns called Warrenton and Hammond, where people live and have homes.
