Erik H. Wrote:
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> 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.

Plus the Trimet service is really bad in Astoria.