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Re: I bought a home next to the train, and I want it stopped NOW!
Author: Jesse
Date: 11-30-2015 - 19:09
Gemco Guy Wrote:
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> BOB2 Wrote:
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> -----
> > Mook,
> >
> > It is MTA, not Metrolink, that has managed to
> > screw this up, with poor outreach and
> disturbing
> > public responses by staff and/or contractors to
> > crazy claims. An EIR/EIS is not required, this
> is
> > technically an exempt project on a existing
> main
> > line, on privately owned UPRR ROW, regardless
> of
> > the public use easement. And the balance of
> the
> > law and precedent has clearly favored the RR's
> > legal pre-emption for upgrades, just like this
> > second track project, on existing lines for
> both
> > public and private RR's (not new lines), an
> have
> > ruled against such NIMBY legal harassment, as
> that
> > we witnessed with the NWP.
> >
> > This will put the tracks on average about 17
> feet
> > closer on one side, zero on the other side, of
> a
> > 150' existing ROW, on a segment adjacent to
> some
> > incredibly large estate sized lots. This is
> about
> > Neighborhood Council politics and the efforts of
> a
> > very motivated small group exaggerating dangers
> > and going door to door. The hypothetical risk
> of
> > a rail derailment, which then ends up affecting
> > their property. and the relative difference in
> > noise disturbance is about the same in this
> > neighborhood as from planes landing at Bob
> Hope,
> > or taking off from Van Nuys, but they've not
> asked
> > the City of LA to shut those down (yet?), that
> I
> > know of????
> >
> > Yes, many of these people would be quite happy
> > with a sound/privacy wall, but as long as MTA
> > staff are involved I am prepared to be less
> than
> > impressed, with the likelihood of much
> progress,
> > especially since this list of more dubious MTA
> > politicians have decided to pander to this
> noisy
> > fearmongering group of Neighborhood Council
> > political wannabee's. MTA's failure makes the
> > case as to why Regional Services and Systems
> need
> > dedicated regional system funding, so as not to
> be
> > held hostage to the whims of those pandering to
> > parochial City of LA politics, at the too LA
> City
> > dominated, MTA.
>
>
> MTA is run by a former Orange County bus driver
> and a complete idiot that is so bent on
> EFFICENTCY. I think from now on and when traffic
> really starts picking up, sitting out there
> between CP Bernson and CP Raymer and pollute the
> hell out of the area and blow OUR air horns all
> night just might change that scenario. Friggin
> MIMBY jews in the Valley.
People in the SFV are very ignorant!!!! That was the Guadalupe turn not the oil cans.
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> BOB2 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Mook,
> >
> > It is MTA, not Metrolink, that has managed to
> > screw this up, with poor outreach and
> disturbing
> > public responses by staff and/or contractors to
> > crazy claims. An EIR/EIS is not required, this
> is
> > technically an exempt project on a existing
> main
> > line, on privately owned UPRR ROW, regardless
> of
> > the public use easement. And the balance of
> the
> > law and precedent has clearly favored the RR's
> > legal pre-emption for upgrades, just like this
> > second track project, on existing lines for
> both
> > public and private RR's (not new lines), an
> have
> > ruled against such NIMBY legal harassment, as
> that
> > we witnessed with the NWP.
> >
> > This will put the tracks on average about 17
> feet
> > closer on one side, zero on the other side, of
> a
> > 150' existing ROW, on a segment adjacent to
> some
> > incredibly large estate sized lots. This is
> about
> > Neighborhood Council politics and the efforts of
> a
> > very motivated small group exaggerating dangers
> > and going door to door. The hypothetical risk
> of
> > a rail derailment, which then ends up affecting
> > their property. and the relative difference in
> > noise disturbance is about the same in this
> > neighborhood as from planes landing at Bob
> Hope,
> > or taking off from Van Nuys, but they've not
> asked
> > the City of LA to shut those down (yet?), that
> I
> > know of????
> >
> > Yes, many of these people would be quite happy
> > with a sound/privacy wall, but as long as MTA
> > staff are involved I am prepared to be less
> than
> > impressed, with the likelihood of much
> progress,
> > especially since this list of more dubious MTA
> > politicians have decided to pander to this
> noisy
> > fearmongering group of Neighborhood Council
> > political wannabee's. MTA's failure makes the
> > case as to why Regional Services and Systems
> need
> > dedicated regional system funding, so as not to
> be
> > held hostage to the whims of those pandering to
> > parochial City of LA politics, at the too LA
> City
> > dominated, MTA.
>
>
> MTA is run by a former Orange County bus driver
> and a complete idiot that is so bent on
> EFFICENTCY. I think from now on and when traffic
> really starts picking up, sitting out there
> between CP Bernson and CP Raymer and pollute the
> hell out of the area and blow OUR air horns all
> night just might change that scenario. Friggin
> MIMBY jews in the Valley.
People in the SFV are very ignorant!!!! That was the Guadalupe turn not the oil cans.
