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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They want to run the damn thing right up the middle of the San Francisco Peninsula past the homes to the ultra-uber wealthy in Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Atherton. Not much complaining here yet, though. Big surprise that the PTBs haven’t shut it down.
Tunnel under the Angeles National forest?
Good luck with that.
1: It’s a pretty sever fault zone, ever hear of the San Andreas Fault?
2: the environazis will find an endangered earthworm or something else, lawsuits would take a thousand years.
3: California needs reservoirs and a distribution system, not bullet trains!
Same reason I retired to Northern California, get away from the filth and vermin.
The Vincent, Acton, Palmdale, Lancaster and Quartz Hill areas are all ready Desert Tortoise habitat, always have been, always will be.
They are called Kangaroo Rats; used to trap and sell them for pets when I was a kid out there.
That’s back before the EPA and any Endangered Species Act.
Anything that kills that pork sucking lie fest is welcome!
“...prize-winning animals she raised arrayed on her cap.”
Big cap, or small animals?
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