Not only do other transportation options exist, but the frailty of the coastal rail segment suggests it would be one of the least likely solutions for transporting San Onofre’s waste.
Author Archives: Laurie Girand
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Girand: Trains vs. Beaches – $ 1 Billion BNSF Baloney
If the total annual contribution of rail freight to the economies of San Diego and Orange Counties is less than $20 million, and OCTA is planning to spend more than $200 million in taxpayer funds in the next year on riprap boulders in San Clemente to keep freight running, the numbers just don’t add up.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Girand: When Is A Listening Session Not A Listening Session?
“OCTA is holding its last public Listening Session on its Coastal Rail Resiliency Resiliency Study Initial Assessment plans for San Clemente on Thursday, May 30th, at 5:00 pm at San Clemente City Hall.”
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Girand and Nelson: Coastal Conflict, Trains or Beaches?
OCTA plans to spend $200 million this summer to armor parts of 7 miles of endangered coastline in San Clemente and Dana Point using riprap boulders that exacerbate erosion. Coastal advocates are demanding environmental reviews and a thorough cost/benefit analysis before South Orange County beaches are obliterated.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Girand: Trains or Coastline – Which Is Essential?
Keeping the trains running along a doomed section of the LOSSAN rail corridor is destroying beaches and contributing to landslides of coastal bluffs saturated from torrential rain. Train vibrations will compound the effects of this year’s El Niño, exacerbating slides. Stop this manmade coastal destruction. Stop the trains.
