Posted on 06/09/2015 6:04:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin
California Gov. Jerry Brown has compared the state's high-speed rail line to construction of the Golden Gate Bridge and the great cathedrals of Europe. Isobel Cook doesn't see it that way.
The 13-year-old who raises chickens, turkeys and ducks in the unincorporated community of Acton told members of the California High-Speed Rail Authority Tuesday that she feared the $68 billion project traveling at speeds up to 220 mph would divide her hometown.
"I love my home," the teenager said, dressed in 4-H attire with medals for prize-winning animals she raised arrayed on her cap. "I don't want it to change."
Acton, on the edge of the Angeles National Forest, sits on a proposed segment that would run from the Los Angeles suburb of Burbank to the high-desert city of Palmdale. Cook was one of about two dozen area residents who told the panel the train would be a threat to rural lifestyles that prize serenity and unbroken vistas.
The panel is considering possible routes through that area.
There were complaints about potential harm to groundwater and home values, hints of lawsuits to come and indignation that the government wasn't listening to the people it serves.
Many who testified urged the authority to tunnel through the area north of Los Angeles, leaving the community unscathed. The state is considering some options that include tunneling through the Angeles National Forest.
"We'd like to see you crawl into a hole in Palmdale and crawl out of it in Burbank, said developer Christopher A. Croisdale, an Acton resident.
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Palmdale is a hole.
Entirely Unpredicted
Really?
My sympathy for the Acton just went out the window.
NIMBYs.
But a big expensive construction project brings numerous opportunities for politicians and their cronies to steal money with little chance of getting caught. What’s more important?
Can’t have a pipeline go across this country but we can have a limited use rail line that benefits certain connected corporate interests.
Obama is behind it and the central hub for the nation is in Chicago. Surprise Surprise.
No water no bullet train stupid people
$3000/inch ... think about it.
“The state is considering some options that include tunneling through the Angeles National Forest.”
Never happen.
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You can bet that the route will be carefully designed to avoid affecting the neighborhoods of the rich and famous.
The “aw shucks” population of Action hides more than a few rich and famous people.
In fact, just about everybody up there is hiding.
But you are right — Nobody dared suggest the rail go straight down the coast. Which would make just as much (or little) sense.
Destroy Santa Barbara and Malibu? Not even to be thought about.
Put it up to a vote, even in CA, and that would read:
No smelt, no bullet train, stupid bureaucrats.
My uncle is just east of there near Llano. Not rich, but well known in the Big Game Rifle business.
Moved out of LA to the desert after the Watts riots to get away from the filth. What most folks would call a hermit.
Find one, then call the Audobon Society.
What a PERFECT solution!!!!! Acton is a PERFECT home for a lizard or turtle this would definitely work!!!!! Acton is a GREAT community best school systems and kids in CA. I would HATE to see this community have to deal this STUPID, IDIOTIC speed rail!!!!!!
AGREED!!!!!!
I am positive I saw a kangaroo mouse there just last week and don’t forget about impeding on the Condor Range!
“There were complaints about potential harm to groundwater and home values, hints of lawsuits to come and indignation that the government wasn’t listening to the people it serves” Check the meanings of the word “serve” & you’ll find there are a few & one of them applies in this case. Look it up & make your own decisions as to which one it is.
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