Thanks, Jim: What do those people know about the cancer-causing, lethal black particulates from diesel fuel and other cocktails of exhaust fumes from heavy traffic which they are breathing into their lungs? As to NOISE didn't Belmont and San Carlos grab our Measure A sales tax money early on for grade separations which eliminated the blasting train horns?

Yes, yes we know that Caltrain is to be electrified (which raises the question of electromagnetic field impacts) and that one day there may be grade separations reducing the toxic congestion, but how many years away is that for the rest of us?

It is an incontrovertible fact that living by railroads and heavy traffic is a health hazard conveniently ignored by city and transportation officials.

Let's not advocate cramming housing into these areas. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission's publication New Choices, New Places addresses this problem in its chapter "The Challenges of TOD".

Surely this was recognized by some smart people when most of the areas around the railroad were zoned commercial and industrial. Let's keep it that way.

By the way, didn't you move from the railroad environs to the hills?

Margaret Received on Mon Dec 17 11:20:57 2007