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Burbank politician supports community concerns over Metrolink emissions
Is it April 1 already? People in LA are concerned about emissions from trains? I can only assume that those same people are already jumping up and down in a massive campaign of concern over emissions from all the freeways, or?
Taylor Yard has been around for what…70 years or longer, since before WWII? These people must be new residents who have just moved to the area and discovered that there are trains there. People cannot be this uninformed. If they don’t like the noise and potential health concerns, they shouldn’t have moved there or should move away to somewhere else.
I thought getting people out of cars and into mass transit was a good thing…Open season on the automobile must be old news now. Its time for these anti-capitatist, environmental wackos to pick a new cause (i.e. target) and its mass transit.
Metrolink is REDUCING overall emissions, isn’t it?
If you have ever sat in I-5 rush-hour traffic just across the wash
from the Taylor yard, it is easy to understand just how
polluted the atmosphere in that area becomes.
And this has been the situation for how many years?
All pretty good comments, but I have to add that I think there was a period between Espee and Metrolink when Taylor Yard was pretty inactive. Not that it matters, it’s not only pure NIMBYism, but also (as the commentors suggest) short sighted.
Sounds like an excellent case for electrification, which will never happen because the country is broke.
Electrification of a modern rail yard? Nothing like random comments that have no merit.
I think lawyers and NIMBY’s are behind it so they can do a class action law suit.
I think lawyers and NIMBY’s are behind it so they can do a class action law suit.
I think lawyers and NIMBY’s are behind it so they can do a class action law suit.
I think lawyers and NIMBY’s are behind it so they can do a class action law suit.
What about requiring the communities to study the noise and emissions they create?
Politicians have stopped kissing babies and now they wring their hands and gnash their teeth because the sky is falling.
The “concerned residents” should move. Nothing more needs to be done. It was their choice to move there, they can live with the supposed consequences.
Taylor Yard was created in 1923 and expanded after World War 2 and Dieselization. The actual yard, roundhouse and SP Shops are long gone, replaced by a giant park, $250 million high school (half empty) and an industrial park. The portion that Metrolink uses is on the South side of the property and can be viewed from I-5. This the same crowd that blocked Hyundai from setting up assembly of the new Rotem Metrolink cab cars (and bi-level) on site next to Metrolink. Rotem wanted to use UP’s old Shops building, but no politician would back it, as the community wanted the land given to them for free. I don’t know if those engines idle while they are refueling them during the day…most of the equipment leaves every night on outbound trains to the hinterlands.
Taylor Yard was created in 1923 and expanded after World War 2 and Dieselization. The actual yard, roundhouse and SP Shops are long gone, replaced by a giant park, $250 million high school (half empty) and an industrial park. The portion that Metrolink uses is on the South side of the property and can be viewed from I-5. This the same crowd that blocked Hyundai from setting up assembly of the new Rotem Metrolink cab cars (and bi-level) on site next to Metrolink. Rotem wanted to use UP’s old Shops building, but no politician would back it, as the community wanted the land given to them for free. I don’t know if those engines idle while they are refueling them during the day…most of the equipment leaves every night on outbound trains to the hinterlands.
They could always put up solar panels and use electric…
Chances are, the yard was there before the concerned residents, who probably contribute as much stink to the atmosphere while they idle on car clogged highways. They ought to move or plant a few more trees in their back yards.
Where are these same people that like to complain about frivilous lawsuits? Are they among the anti-train crowd? No wonder why we hear no whimpers about it from them.