A Superior Court Judge has rejected a request from the City of Riverside, CA, that would have shut down work on expansion of the China Shipping Terminal at the Port of Los Angeles and forced the port to redo its Environmental Impact Report. In its lawsuit brought against the port, Riverside argued that expansion of the terminal would result in more cargo at the port and more eastbound double-stack trains passing through the City of Riverside, about 50 miles inland. The judge, in a ruling handed down last week, rejected port arguments that the impacts of rail traffic in Riverside generated by the project were “too tenuous and speculative to require evaluation.”
