(Source: Los Angeles Times editorial, April 6, 2016)
LOS ANGELES — After more than 10 years of analysis, a 5,000-page environmental impact report, countless public hearings and seven lawsuits, a judge last week blocked plans to build a new rail yard at the Port of Los Angeles. The new yard, to be known as the Southern California International Gateway, was planned as a $500-million, 153-acre freight transfer point where trucks could deliver containers from the nearby docks to trains ready to haul the cargo across the country. It was sold to then-Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the Los Angeles City Council as the greenest facility of its kind in the U.S., one that would significantly improve traffic and air quality by eliminating more than a million truck trips each year to the existing rail yard 24 miles away.
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