Vernon Files Petition to Overturn Metro’s Proposed Malabar Yard Expansion

Vernon Files Petition to Overturn Metro’s Proposed Malabar Yard Expansion

The city of Vernon alleges in a new legal action against the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority that the agency’s decision to include the Malabar Yard as mitigation for the Link Union Station Project’s impacts on freight rail violated the California Environmental Quality Act. The city filed its petition in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleging that Metro’s supplemental environmental impact report improperly requires new rail…