Madison East End
Tuesday 14 April 2015 was the second neighborhood association
meeting that I have been able to attend in almost three years. This
is also the second meeting for which I received any type of notice
and the notice for this one was delivered to my house two hours
before the meeting and I almost threw it in the trash since the
announcement was so primitive.
Our guest speaker came to bring to our attention the intention of
CSX to transport dangerous fuels through the City of Baltimore to a
plant in south Baltimore. The next day Dee and I discussed
this and we do not think that Jon had his information correct.
For one thing, he did not ask Johns Hopkins Medical Center to sign
on his project. They would be greatly affected. Also, we
do not think that Amtrak would allow CSX to use the tracks in our
neighborhood simply because Amtrak needs them for their passenger
service.
But we are very happy that maybe something will be started in our
neighborhood. Both Dee and I complained that every time we
tried to attend a meeting nobody was here.
Mitchell
Henderson started the meeting with a prayer. At 18:22 we had
nine
people at the meeting. Many of us did not find out about the
meeting
until just hours before the meeting.
Jon
Smetan was our guest. He told us that the oil training is
traveling
through Baltimore City. There is a company that wants to
transport
oil from North Dakota to Curtis Bay. It will be shipping down
the
east coast. This oil is incredibly flammable and explosive.
There
have been four separate accidents in Virginia. We want a bill to
study before any oil can be shipped so that we know that it is
safe. CSX is suing so that their route would not be known. This
is
frackling oil. The cars transporting them need to be DOT 101
cars. There is a permit to allow them to ship this stuff.
You
have to evacuate a half mile area for any explosion. Jon works
in
the building but he does not live in the area. He read aloud the
letter which he wants us to sign. He is a volunteer for this
project.
There
are 10,000 people in the area. A man asked how many other people
know about this.
Johns
Hopkins just put in a new school in Ashland Avenue and they
wanted to
run a highway to Bay View.
We
are hoping to have the bill considered in May or June. There is
an
informational session in Curtis Bay in the next few weeks.
We
are constantly ignoring ourselves because a lot of folks won’t
come
out to meetings. There is speed coming up on Madison Street.
They
built a new school in the neighborhood but we are not a part of
it. We need places where kids can play. This building is going
to become
a school. They are making preparations now for this. This was a
perfume factory and people don’t even know it. There is a
computer
lab with 10 or 12 computers never used. There is a pool table
that was never
used.
The
king rat, black rat, goes up to the roof and comes into your
house
through he walls. Grime and crime work together.
The
meetings are the second Tuesday of each month at 18:00.
The
City will put a park on the 2300 block of East Eager Street.
About
six months ago at a meeting people were complaining about
flooding.
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