Union Pacific and Capitol Corridor allege EIR ignores ‘public safety risks’
Two more lawsuits have been filed in an attempt to sink the Oakland A’s plan to build a waterfront ballpark and mixed-use development at Howard Terminal.by a coalition of shipping and related companies at the Port of Oakland, these suits also take aim at the project’s environmental impact report, calling it flawed.
Capitol Corridor runs 30 weekday and 22 weekend passenger trains each week on Union Pacific Railroad’s tracks, which cross Market Street and Martin Luther King Junior Way, as well as Clay, Washington, Broadway, Franklin, Webster and Oak streets, according to the lawsuits. The Union Pacific rail line also has about 15 freight trains per day and other passenger trains from Amtrak.
“Among the many significant and unavoidable environmental impacts that will be be caused by the Project are the significant increase of congestion in local and regional roadways and the creation of permanent and substantial hazards relating to the masses of cars and people that will cross the adjacent UPRR rail lines following construction of the Project,” Union Pacific’s lawsuit states.