http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/2007/04/05/a-light-at-the-end-of-the-airborne-love-canal/ Fri, 24 May 2013 00:34:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/2007/04/05/a-light-at-the-end-of-the-airborne-love-canal/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Jerkins Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:48:17 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/2007/04/05/a-light-at-the-end-of-the-airborne-love-canal/#comment-168 NO WAY! It’s the only semi-pleasant drive in the whole area. Down with trucks!

]]> http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/2007/04/05/a-light-at-the-end-of-the-airborne-love-canal/comment-page-1/#comment-167 Here before 580 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:32:12 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/2007/04/05/a-light-at-the-end-of-the-airborne-love-canal/#comment-167 The truck ban on 580 was negotiated with Oakland. Cal Trans was putting a freeway through some very desirable residential neighborhoods. Would Piedmont residents want less than an assurance that trucks would be banned, if a freeway were to be built through their city? My childhood home was removed for that freeway. Not easy to take, but necessary. I commuted on 580 (Castro Valley to Berkeley) for 12 years. It is much more crowded now, but trucks would make it intolerable, for the drivers as well as nearby residents. Unlike 880, 580 is a hilly drive, and truckers would have to downshift, spewing more pollutants into the atmosphere for nearby residents to breathe. Removing the ban is a bad idea! Time for some newer, more creative ideas. How about trains or ships taking freight to the valley? I have seen both mentioned, but not seriously considered, I don’t think.

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