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Posted by ntrainride on Tue Oct 2 23:59:51 2007, in response to Re: LIRR needs to improve ROW maintenance; new dieseld, posted by WillD on Tue Oct 2 20:58:42 2007. Nice scenario. And if the local numbnuts don't suceed in blocking it, we'll have the Pilgrim Intermodal Yard as an extremely logical end node for direct freight trains from the Heartland onto the heart of Long Island. The concept is so sensible I'm really worried about it actually coming into existence. Seriously. You basically have to know some stuff about how all our goods get to where we are to really understand why that rail yard is such a good idea.I attended the recent public hearing at the S.C.C.C. hall in Brentwood about this. I was the only person for it. I was literally booed off the podium by the hordes of Commackers and Dix Hillers who, one by one, stood at the mike and expressed their sorrow and anger at the notion of a freight yard near them. I tried to point out that something that could eventually remove thousands of long distance tractor trailers from all the Long Island arterials and this would be beneficial to the hundreds of thousands of people living near those roads. But those guys kept yelling out stuff, laughing and murmuring. They just didn't want to think about the larger view. It was all "our community" and "the environment". Yeah. I'm sure many of the men in that auditorium were guys who took their sons into the very woods they were supposedly so concerned about to ride ATVs, screw the damages that causes. None of `em seemed to understand that one train with, say 40 cars and one locomotive is amazingly more efficient than forty cabs pulling forty seperate trailers. It never crossed their minds. And there were, of course, threats to 'SUE THEM IF THIS THING PROCEEDS!!!". Amazing. They'd be suing the state, hence themselves but nobody mentioned that. The whole experience was nauseating. Finally, no kidding, two school security guards "walked" me" out the door, though they were smiling. A guy who owns a trucking company told me outside that he was definitely in favor of the yard. But he changed his mind about speaking after he caught the gist of the crowds' mood. |
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