County Stops Buying Land on Rail Route
In response to homeowner protests, the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission on Wednesday stopped buying land along a San Fernando Valley railroad line that is one of two routes under consideration for a mass transit system.
Homeowners along the so-called Chandler-Victory route had complained bitterly that purchase of the land suggested that the freight corridor had already been selected for the cross-Valley line.
One homeowner leader along the route, which roughly parallels Chandler and Victory boulevards from North Hollywood to Warner Center in Woodland Hills, Wednesday compared the proposed buying of land to “constructing a gallows outside the courthouse before an accused is tried.”
In addition to the Chandler-Victory route, the commission is studying the possibility of building a rail line on pillars along the Ventura Freeway from Universal City to Warner Center.
Preliminary results of a $2.1-million study of the two proposed routes are expected in September.
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