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Post by Gokhan on Sept 16, 2010 11:18:01 GMT -8
You can read the lawsuit here: Lawsuit against the bike and pedestrian path on the Expo restricted-use easementThese are the plaintiffs. The first plaintiff is the attorney who is suing: Plaintiff S. ZACHARY SAMUELS and ELANA SAMUELS, Trustees of the S. Zachary Samuels and Elana Samuels Family Trust dated lilS/OJ is the ovmer of the real property oommonly known as 10384 Northvale Road, Los Angeles. California. The Bikeway is to go directly behind 23 Plaintiff's residence. Plaintiff LA WRENCE ASH and LUANA L ASH, Trustees of the Ash Family Trust is the owner of the retil property commonly knO\Vll. as 10400 Northvale Road, Los Angeles. California. The Bikeway is to go directly behind Plaintiffs residence. Plaintiff ROBERT KA WAOKA and CAROLKA WAOKA are the owners of the real property commonly known as 10410 Northvale Road, Los Angeles. California. The Bikeway is to go directly behind Plaintiff s residence. Plaintiff ROBERTA DOUCET, Trustee of the Etoy Trust, is the owner of the real property commonly known as 10406 Northvale Road, Los Angeles. California. The Bikeway is to go directly behind Plaintiff s residence. Plaintiff JAMES GREENWOOD and AUDREY GREENWOOD is the owner of the real property commonly known as 10420 Northvale Road, Los Angeles. California. The Bikeway is to go directly behind Plaintiffs residence.
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Post by Gokhan on Sept 16, 2010 11:46:35 GMT -8
To give a perspective of who is suing and who is not, Parcels 82 through 86 are suing and others are not. The suing attorney himself lives in Parcel 86. Note that Parcels 82 through 86 are the ones least affected by the bike and pedestrian path, with the restricted-use easement being 75-ft-wide there and it's joining with the 100-ft-wide Expo right-of-way where Northvale turns: Full resolutionFull resolution
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Post by roadtrainer on Sept 18, 2010 21:07:14 GMT -8
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Post by davebowman on Sept 21, 2010 16:02:13 GMT -8
It took me over an hour to get to work at USC this morning from Santa Monica because of the accident on the 10 East. I wonder if there were any NFSR supporters also sitting in traffic?
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Post by Alexis Kasperavičius on Aug 13, 2011 11:10:31 GMT -8
I am a bit perplexed. Is the recently dismissed NIMBY suit this bike path one? Or is it still making its way through the court system?
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Post by LAofAnaheim on Aug 13, 2011 12:37:06 GMT -8
I am a bit perplexed. Is the recently dismissed NIMBY suit this bike path one? Or is it still making its way through the court system? NSFR has appealed the decision of their lawsuit over the FEIR. The Bike Path lawsuit is separate, but I don't know who the plaintiff is.
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Post by Gokhan on Aug 14, 2011 10:03:11 GMT -8
NFSR lost the NFSR suit and they filed and appeal. Appeal hearings will be soon.
Bike-and-pedestrian-path suit by a few homeowners never happened because the city agreed to do an EIR for the bike-and-pedestrian-path, which they hadn't done.
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Post by Alexis Kasperavičius on Feb 21, 2012 6:07:34 GMT -8
Interesting video I found which takes NFSR to task for their delays on Expo.
Because some of the other facts are a little off - could be wrong - but the filmmaker claims that NFSR is now requesting 15ft high sound walls along the entire route. Has anyone heard of this?
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Post by regen on Feb 21, 2012 23:16:02 GMT -8
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Post by Gokhan on Feb 22, 2012 15:51:11 GMT -8
Nice video.
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Post by Alexis Kasperavičius on Oct 23, 2012 6:38:42 GMT -8
As you all may have heard, NFSR filed a stay, or a request to stop all work until the legal issue of whether or not the environmental impact report used correct methodologies in determining grade crossing is resolved by the Supreme Court of California. Hopefully this gets shot down. This same tactic was used against the Orange line and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions in delays. After it was built the group that did it said it was a mistake - the valley is unthinkable without this line (but they still had to pay Metro's legal fees). Here's a link to the NBC coverage of the story. Interestingly, no one from NFSR would go on camera. What gives? Are they scared to face the music? (link) Phase Two of Expo Line Construction Caught in Political WebFYI, its seems likely that the Court took this case because two different conclusions can be met with current case law in regard to how environmental impact reports (EIR) are designed. At this point, if NFSR won, the most they could hope for is for Expo to re-do the EIR - which would take a year or more and stop all work. While that seems extremely unlikely, it's always a possibility and Metro/Expo is merely underscoring what's at stake.
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Post by TransportationZ on Oct 24, 2012 0:05:52 GMT -8
I've been riding the blue line all my life, and even at 4 years old it didn't take rocket science to figure out that you should be careful around tracks. At-grade is just a part of light rail. It completely defeats the purpose of light rail. For as many grade separations they want(and this line overall has a TON of grade separations compared to other LRT systems), we might as well build Heavy Rail.
Plus, if this line was built as a subway these same people would complain about a tunnel going under their house.
These people just don't know how badly needed this line is. Getting Metro Rail to Santa Monica is going to be the biggest/best thing that happened to LA Rail since the Red Line.
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