Yet Another HSR DEIR
02/21/12 Filed in: High-Speed
Rail
TRANSDEF, the Planning
and Conservation League, the California Rail
Foundation and the Community Coalition on High-Speed
Rail filed comments on the Partially Revised Draft
EIR today. This is the HSR Authority’s third attempt
to come up with a legally defensible EIR for the Bay
Area to Central Valley portion of the Statewide HSR
project. TRANSDEF and its allies, which include the
cities of Atherton, Menlo Park, and Palo Alto,
successfully challenged the previous EIRs.
These comments propose an entirely new Altamont route, based on the Altamont Corridor Rail Project Preliminary Alternatives Analysis Report. (See an earlier Newsletter for an overview of this exciting project.) By avoiding the environmental impacts identified in earlier DEIRs, this alternative poses a challenge to the Authority’s stubborn insistence on the Pacheco route: An unbiased evaluation would determine the new Altamont alternative to be environmentally superior to Pacheco.
The comment letters and attachments are posted at the bottom of the Altamont page.
These comments propose an entirely new Altamont route, based on the Altamont Corridor Rail Project Preliminary Alternatives Analysis Report. (See an earlier Newsletter for an overview of this exciting project.) By avoiding the environmental impacts identified in earlier DEIRs, this alternative poses a challenge to the Authority’s stubborn insistence on the Pacheco route: An unbiased evaluation would determine the new Altamont alternative to be environmentally superior to Pacheco.
The comment letters and attachments are posted at the bottom of the Altamont page.