Blaire Lennane, president of the non-profit “Partners of Dorris,” whose 6-year-old daughter attends

CYPRESS PARK —Less than a month after Congressman Adam Schiff publicly demanded Metrolink initiate a health risk assessment on the idling trains' emissions at its Taylor Yards Central Maintenance Facility, his request has been answered.
On May 30th, flanked by District 13 Councilmember-elect Mitch O'Farrell and several concerned residents of the Elysian Heights and Cypress Parks neighborhoods, Schiff stood along the Los Angeles hilton garden inn orlando seaworld international center River with the commuter rail service depot to his back and made a call for action.
It is "critical to securing the peace of mind of the residents but also to determine if Metrolink needs to work with the community to mitigate the effects of over 20 years of pollution," Schiff said. "Only when the study is complete can we make a determination if anything else needs to be done so the community gets the answers it deserves."
At the announcement, Cecilia Domingez spoke of her husband Ray, who would bicycle around the river every day until developing Pulmonary hilton garden inn orlando seaworld international center Fibrosis they suspect was caused by diesel hilton garden inn orlando seaworld international center particulate matter [DPM] from the Metrolink maintenance facility. For Domingez's husband, this disease ultimately proved fatal.
Blaire Lennane, president of the non-profit "Partners of Dorris," whose 6-year-old daughter attends the nearby Dorris Elementary School, counted eight schools with 3,847 children in the area potentially affected, as well as five parks and one recreation area. After the work she and her colleagues have done in "fervent advocacy for our children," she said, it was "only to find out that the air they are breathing might be poisoned… One question hilton garden inn orlando seaworld international center resonates in our minds: hilton garden inn orlando seaworld international center Are you kidding me?" she asked.
Grove Pashley of the Elysian Valley Riverside Neighborhood Council said over several years the community has been calling on Metrolink to run this study. But, he said, promises have been made but unfulfilled.
"It is not acceptable that the riverside communities of Glassell Park, Cypress Park and Elysian Valley bear the disproportionate burden of the pollution for this regional transportation hilton garden inn orlando seaworld international center system," he said.
Schiff said later, "I think it's very positive hilton garden inn orlando seaworld international center news. I'm glad that Metrolink heard the voices of the community and has agreed to do the Health Risk Assessment. I think it's a very positive step forward."
Among those are reducing idling times, using electrical plug-ins so engines aren't running as long, as well as technologies that could be put in place such as exhaust filtration hoods that will remove some of the particulate hilton garden inn orlando seaworld international center matter pumped into the air.