Taylor Yard
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- In partnership with KCETLink, the Laboratory for Environmental Narative Strategies (www.ioes.ucla....) at the University of California, Los Angeles has launched a year-long collaboration to develop models and media for reporting environmental stories.
The first storyline focuses on the past, present and possible futures of Taylor Yard. Once a hub for Southern Pacific Railroad’s freight trains, Taylor Yard is now an undeveloped and still-contaminated site adjacent to the L.A. River. The articles, interactive web features, and a documentary short written and produced by faculty and graduate students address how decisions about the future of Taylor Yard and development along the L.A. River are wrapped up in larger questions about what the future of Los Angeles should look like - and who gets a voice in determining these outcomes.
My dad worked there as a Brakeman for the SP, i always like going there to see the trains and visit the yard office.
Taylor Yard was there be for most of the residence's moved in ... I worked at Taylor for 25 yrs and was sad when it was closed down.
Didn't you get moved over to West Colton?
I went to East yard.... Commerce on Washington Blvd.
Good to hear you weren't just let go.
No some of us went to different yards... some went to C of I .... W C ...... Dolores Yard....
What years did you work there, when it was SP or UP ?
I think they should preserve it for future railyard capacity. Think of all the diesel being burned by all the extra trucks on the highways, and they clog up the road and damage the surface, very expensive repairs that just cause more environmental pollution to fix.. Trains burn about 1/100 of the diesel, need about 1/100 of the man power, and carry 200 times the cars. Makes no sense to use trucks for any freight over 200 miles. The merger between SP and UP was criminal and the government is corrupt, it always drives up prices with less competition and as the gov taxes the railroads out of existence its funny how they always acquire control of the land and create or take over the railroad. The Government liberals have always sought control over the railroads. The river has always been beautiful there, the frogs have always live there and no soil contamination would hurt any human that walks on it. How many 100's millions more dollars will be wasted on this place, and how much pollution was created when the tax payers who went to work, produced something and traveled to earn a living so they could be taxed 60 million dollars to be wasted on a phony contamination project. These people in Government love to make excuses to spend money on fake project in which they all get to pocket the money. Taylor yard is cool the way it is and it costs nothing to leave it original and it hurts no children to play there. STUPID IDIOTS YOUR SKATE PARKS ARE MORE DANGEROUS. Trains are by far the least polluting, the most efficient safe way to move freight. Sad what happened to Taylor yard.... 100 MILLION FOR A PARK? WHAT A JOKE. Leave it like it is, its cool, and preserve it for future rail use, it is always going to be the best way. DIESEL AND THAT RAILYARD ARE NOT THAT POLLUTING, IT IS OVER EXAGGERATED.
Keep studying if you want to restore L.A. you better tear Down most of the houses and buildings thanks to that southern Pacific railroad you have Los Angeles so don't knock the railroad they made it possible for L.A. to be a big city what was a swamp basically is now a big city
Tear down the whole town lol make it orignal. I guess the people need to kill eachother first. But thats what the gang bangers in LA do, kill eachother.
I would like to see Taylor yard come back
Great video. Will be interesting to see what becomes of they former yard. I could really do without all the 'warm-and-fuzzy' environmentalist shtick though. Not to mention the lady complaining of the noise because she chose to live near to a rail yard. Sheesh. For real???
Families, and maybe hers, have been living there before the yard. “Environmental shtick”? It’s very much focused on that, cleaning up the contamination to bring back nature, longer droughts may algo affect the river and future plans, etc.
Love Taylor Yard ❤& LA RIVER
She was worried about the diesel fuel. Diesel locomotives are very beneficial for the environment because they move the most weight the most efficient way.
Other people are worried about the polution.
The Los Angeles River is a flood channel for a reason. Your life & property.
People in Los Angeles are stupid. So concerned about the environment while at the same time supporting China which is the world's biggest polution cess pool on earth.
They did the same thing to the "Corn Field" between China Town & Dog Town.
What the city of Los Angeles plants to do to this section of Taylor Yard is nothing short of absolutely shameful.
Screw them all for thinking that choosing this site over other ones that are actually reasonably potentially fit for being “restored” into spaces hosting wildlife habitat, vegetation, and wetlands was ever a genuinely good idea-ESPECIALLY on a site next to a railroad that used to be used heavily and productively by one.
This country and Los Angeles, in particular, needs to shift more of its overall traffic off the roads and back on to the railroads for far greater efficiency and far less energy footprint, rather than relying more heavily on the galaxy-brained move to convert all road vehicles to electricity as the only major solution to addressing climate change risks, instead, like the government of California is, instead. Depriving railroads potential property to refurbish and reactivate supporting systems and infrastructure that could potentially aid it to fulfill such roles like LA is, here, is undeniably a horrible idea in the long term-and they should be just as concerned about it in the short term, period.
Its a shame we need to preserve railroad history. Los Angeles is what it is beasuse ofvthe railroad
It's been a waste land for the 60 years I have been around it. How many more years until something productive comes of it?
Plant trees Los Angeles area
i say just turn it back into river land, the pollution left by the yard is staying there
The site was purchased by the Southern Pacific in 1911.... there were less people there.... the land was empty. People moved in around the Railroad...
dam munoz thats where they fucked up, building homes around the rails was a mistake, they shouldve only built industrial buildings and warehouses and factories around them only