According to an article “Full Steam on Rail yard”:
“But residents of School Lane Hills and Barrcrest neighborhoods, near the site of the new rail yard, weren’t so enthused. They didn’t oppose relocation of the rail yard per se, but worried about the impact the new yard could have on their community.
“F&M officials staged meetings in private homes, but neighbors’ fears weren’t allayed. Residents mobilized, creating a group called CAARRT (Community Activists Against Rail Road Transgressions) and hiring a lawyer. They raised environmental concerns, primarily over a report submitted to DEP. Opponents said it was incomplete at best, intentionally misleading at worst.”
WATCHDOG: This is either sloppy reporting or a white-wash of a sad chapter of the abuses of the time, in which Lancaster General Hospital was fully complicit and John Fry, then president of Franklin & Marshall College, was the instigator.
The key issue with the neighbors was clear cut: ‘Was there a better location for the relocation of the rail yard?’ Instead of addressing the issue by commissioning a report by a impartial consultant, Fry chose to slough off their request with the infamous telling at duplicitous, “staged” public meeting that he had “made a phone call” to the Donnelley company and was told that the alternative acreage wasn’t available.
We have oft described Fry as doing “The best possible things in the worst possible way.” Unfortunately, his disingenuous, heavy handed, bullying technique was much admired by the leaders of ’public charity’ Lancaster General Hospital, the co-sponsor of the project..
All the reporter had to do to get the story right was to go to the NewsLanc archives. Growl!
“Sloppy reporting”…..by LNP ??? By the Sunday News??? By GIL SMART??? “Say it ain’t so, Joe”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But residents of School Lane Hills and Barrcrest neighborhoods, near the site of the new rail yard, weren’t so enthused. They didn’t oppose relocation of the rail yard per se, but worried about the impact the new yard could have on their community.
And what of the rest of us, opposed to removing valuable industrial land with excellent rail access from the tax rolls. This project was a colossal waste of tax payer money.
Oriss-Fryville is a collection of soccer fields and other amusements for mostly out-of-state students while our own state university has the distinction of the most expensive public school in the United States – pathetic!