An Old About Page

August 07, 2026

An Old About Page

The research presented on this website was inspired by a series of regional planning smart-growth workshops in 2001 and 2002.

It has benefited from projects from at least 5 different college classes, as well as input from various professionals who were generous enough to give of their time and expertise.

It's likely more accurate information than my more recent belief that I worked on this in at least three college classes.

And it contained this URL to public workshops by the Association of Bay Area Governments which is now dead:

http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/smartgrowth/publicworkshops.html

TLDR

The current Solano County, California Rail Plan is an environmental and financial disaster waiting to happen.

The plan was born of a broken political process where the cities got together and divided up the political pie, ignoring factors critical to rail success, and also gave no voice to Travis Air Force Base, the largest employer in the county.

The planned Benicia Station will steadily sink into Suisun Marsh, a protected wetland, which is critical habitat along the Pacific Flyway. This will be a global environmental disaster.

Encroachment on Travis AFB makes it more likely that the federal government will finally close the base and move its functions elsewhere, gutting the county financially and leaving behind a Superfund site. Moving it would create a NEW Superfund site elsewhere on the West Coast.

I've also written about it a little elsewhere:

What not to do
Solano Rail