Supervisor’s Trash Proposal Lauded
It was great to read of Supervisor Maria VanderKolk’s proposal for using trains to haul the trash (“Supervisor Urges Sole County Dump Agency,” March 26), instead of putting up with the adverse effect of thousands of garbage trucks making an air-quality sewer of the west county and citizen dumpers turning Ventura into litter city.
The comment of one fellow supervisor that the program would be too expensive is unfortunate. Truck hauling is never as cheap as rail when the tracks are in place, as they are in Ventura County--unless we cook the books to make it come out that way. It appears VanderKolk has been doing her homework like environmentalists have in a number of places.
Her other proposal, opting for the Regional Sanitation District and public ownership, has little to do with any philosophy of private/public partnership, as suggested by another supervisor. It’s a last-minute attempt to protect our rears from a garbage monopoly under Waste Management Inc., hardly your mom-and-pop free enterprise outfit.
ROBERT SHIMER
Ventura
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