Western Railroad Discussion > BNSF SCIG yard plans (L.A. Harbor area) - no-go, per judge

Today's Daily Breeze has an article about the SCIG yard. The judge issued a "final judgment" on Tuesday, stopping the project (which had not really started).  Evidently the environmental impact report was inadequate, in that it didn't provide enough details about local road traffic impacts.  

This is the norm in California

Boilerman Wrote:
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> This is the norm in California

Do you live in California?  (or are you one of the many California bashers who don't live here?)

casco17 Wrote:
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> Today's Daily Breeze has an article about the SCIG
> yard. The judge issued a "final judgment" on
> Tuesday, stopping the project (which had not
> really started).  Evidently the environmental
> impact report was inadequate, in that it didn't
> provide enough details about local road traffic
> impacts.  

No surprise.  SP was smart to build ICTF when they did, but of course that was 30 years ago.


Allen

As long as we have a pack of idiots running the state, nothing will be done unless you want tp spend the money for a long legal fight..

Port improvements have turned into tough sells and may be a questionable investment with the Panama Canal changes, the potential for Artic Passage, the changes in European and Asian shipping routes, not to mention the Politics of no longer exporting raw materials. It may make a decent hi-density residential voting block, I should say housing district, except for the theory of Ocean levels rising. It could be turned into a Private Boat Marina, except it appears a great deal of the area already has been turned into Marinas. Maybe they could find an ancient Luxury Passenger Ship and an unusual airplane from a different era to attract Tourists...

PHall Wrote:
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> Boilerman Wrote:
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> > This is the norm in California
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> Do you live in California?  (or are you one of
> the many California bashers who don't live here?)

Some of the loudest hecklers are the ones seated in the top row of the center field bleachers........



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/28/16 12:15 by Chico43.

Boilerman Wrote:
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> This is the norm in California


Yes and we appreciate that.

Unfortunately the idiots running the State of California & their NIMBY Allies are the Dr. NO Party & as long as they have control nothing logical will be built because they have created such a paranoia of nonsense.  The State that has the potential to be an economic powerhouse has rather chosen to shoot itself in the head.  Yes, SP was smart to build ICTF when they did & Santa Fe missed their chance before becoming BNSF.