Odd that Lakewood had no such problems with the upgrade of the Tacoma to Lakewood section that allowed extension of the Sounder commute service last year.
Typical Lakewood. Tillicum’s traffic problems have existed for more than 30 years and Lakewood will not spend a dime for improvements. Maybe because this is a lower income part of the city. All the city is interested in is tax revenue from retail business next to a Ft Lewis gate. If the city council was truly interested in Tillicum’s quality of life they would improve the exiting roads. Reality is that the city did build a new road for a more affluent community next to Tillicum. Can you spell hypocrites?
What? Grade crossings will close when a train passes? You’re not allowed to drive between the train’s wheels? Outrageous!
More rantings from the " provider class " about socialists. Why don’t you take your axe and grind it somewhere else. This is about railroads , not a sounding board for your repugnant poitics !
Typical NIMBY response from LIBERALS in Washington State. My question is, why the hell haven’t the unions, which would most likely gain jobs for their members, stood up and pushed the project? LIBERALS LOVE UNIONS!
All these jackasses want to do is shut down ALL BUSINESS for some pie-in-the-sky utopia, the product of their drug infested lifestyle.
Having travelled the scenic Puget Sound route I can appreciate the desire not to move away from it. But I can certainly see the benefits of switching to the inland route, and, yes, having a stop there. As to road traffic delays at the level crossings, I can’t see these being more than minimal so, on balance, I would support the move.
NIMBY, that is all that this is.
NIMBY, that is akll that this is.
I guess I’ll never understand people. While La Junta, Trinidad, Raton, Santa Fe and Albuquerque are fighting to keep their Amtrak service (Southwest Chief), this place in Washington wants to throw it away???
There seems to be two sides here. Certainly a certain amount of NIMBY and BANANA seems evident however I do not think I
would want a 79 MPH grade level track through my town.
It should be separated.
Those of us in the midwest heard the same thing when CN was planning to take over the EJ&E and double the train traffic through most of the communities. Then suddenly CN begn upgrading the street crossings with new equipment, that the J had left go for years. Now everything is quiet with double the trains - not a peep from anyone - not even the locomotive, since they have created ‘quiet’ zones through some of the areas. And they lived happily ever after.
Where did they come up with 79 mph on the Lakewood
route? Not likely. Once it goes off the mainline it skirts
I-5 along Joint Base Lewis McChord into Lakewood.
I don’t think even the Sounder goes that fast.