In a joint letter issued to the California High-Speed Rail Authority in advance of its June 9 board meeting, Los Angeles County Mayor Michael D. Antonovich, Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, and Los Angeles City Councilmember Felipe Fuentes called on the Authority to recognize the significant impacts to many communities along the proposed rail alignments and to develop a clear timeline for conducting the technical analyses requested by local communities that will allow the Authority to remove as soon as possible alternatives with the greatest community impacts.
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“The High-Speed Rail study of routes between Palmdale and Burbank is moving in the right direction, but several route alternatives still pose great impacts to residences, businesses, churches, and recreation facilities for our communities,” said Mayor Antonovich. “Supervisor Kuehl, Councilmember Fuentes, and I represent every community impacted by every route still under consideration, and we have come together with one voice to ask the Authority to expedite the process by which it will be able to remove or put underground alternatives that are causing our communities great concern for their homes, businesses, equestrian facilities, churches, and quality of life.”
Supervisor Sheila Kuehl concurred with the joint request. “I strongly agree with my colleagues, Mayor Antonovich and Council Member Fuentes, that we need to work with our partners at the High-Speed Rail Authority to find the safest route from Palmdale to Burbank with the least disruptive impact on our surrounding communities,” said Supervisor Kuehl.
“Investment in mobility and reduction of greenhouse gases are critical to California’s future – that’s why it’s imperative to make sound and thoughtful decisions about the routes and impacts to residents in the San Fernando Valley,” said Los Angeles City Councilmember Felipe Fuentes, 7th District. “The CHSRA must be mindful of the impacts to the quality of life as it proceeds in this environmental review process.”
“Working with our local leaders and residents we must ensure that the CHSRA delivers a project that minimizes the impacts and maximizes the benefits,” said the Councilmember.
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They will build it anyway no water what we say.
If all unite, and speak/fight to protect our properties (from the damage the drilling will create) it will not be an easy task. Many times I notice that non property owners “just go with the flow” ’cause it does not affect them. The property damage is. Never recognized or published; we take the cost. The future cost to maintain (it will NOT yield the necessary revenue) WILL be on us; the property owners through taxes.
We do not need this train at all… Take care of this states many issues instead. As in the drought, homes less etc. We are all living in limbo, not knowing if we are going to lose our homes. Do something to help us!!
The proposed route that is called SR. 14 I’m told will be 1/4 mile south of the 14 fwy between placerita canyon and golden valley rd. that puts it behind the fire station across from target. That land I was told by the state division of hwys, after they damaged our house all the time they were building the frwy, in 1970, directly above our house. The house next door was removed due to damage and then they told us the damage was due to a prehistoric landslide in that area of the mountain above us. They couldn’t find the reports and pictures of the damage they took and the 71 quake made the damage worse. They didn’t pay as promised to fix their damage. Now you see Target sitting on that spot. We’ve since fixed the damage from both. Now they want to drill through that “landslide area” and wait for the next earthquake to disturb the landslide,right? Let’s stay on top of them as they have a dishonest past. It’s not a done deal yet.
just get rid of the whole thing PERIOD!
Derail this whole program. Jerry Brown is mental.
It is a shame this has so much legitimacy. This is a very large, expensive project with almost no benefit. Why would I drive an hour to a train station to wait an hour for a train that will take three hours to take me to San Francisco when I can drive there just a quickly and at the time I want to leave?
How about quit wasting money and eliminate the POS all together and Jerry idiot.
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Antonovich is running for State Senate and will grasp for any issue. Just like Bobbi Fiedler did, extending the delay in building a quality mass transit system of the Valley
You can chill on a train.
I rather “chill” knowing that MY TAXES are going to what’s needed. A desalination plant that would help with water shortage…what a concept!
Sure thing…200mph over the San Andreas fault line. Good one.
Hey, Karen. I love trains.
So how much do you hear about this project in North Corolina? This thing is now approaching $100,000,000,000 and that doesn’t include the actual trains. Think of the opportunity costs. That’s like 2 million Priuses.
The state really does need new infrastructure for water.
The first segment goes from Fresno to Merced. In other words, from where nobody is to where nobody wants to go.
It won’t make the journey effectively faster or cheaper or convenient. Though I concede I would ride it at least once because it would be an “E ticket”. And you can chill on a train.
I doubt it would even produce less net CO2. At least not for a long time.
I haven’t heard anything about it. I don’t watch the news I just get news from comedy shows. Gotta keep stress down. 100 trillion! That’s insane – especially if it’s not something everyone is jumping on.
What a dumb idea, the bullet train that doesn’t live up to any of the requirements of it’s ballot measure….doesn’t meet the speed requirements, extremely over budget, and on and on and on. How about spending the billions on water desalination plants? Oh wait, that would make too much sense.
200mph + over the San Andreas fault line. Really smart guys!
No mention of the train’s impacts on Nature, Habitat (tunnels can divert surface springwater) Native Plants and Local Wildlife I see. Seems to have dropped right off the wayside. Please Sunland Tujunga, ensconce Nature as having an established right to exist where it exists under and along with any future land use. Officially regard Local Wildlife and Hillside Natural areas as an important benefit to the community’s health and well being, and contributes significantly to this community’s identity and way of life.
Good to see they are all saying get rid of the bad routes. What do they do once they realize they are all the bad routes? The only route that makes sense is Tejon Pass. Until the insanity of going via Palmdale is killed, there will be no sane route. All the towns need to fight the Palmdale routing. Join together, do not force another bad route on a neighboring community.