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Just read 2021 story on Montgomery Field lead emissions
Trolley Tim – do you have Pronto pass?
I have noticed how people look at the homeless with fear and disdain. So I make it a point to smile at them, and I can see the impact it makes.
Lead lament
Hello, I am a concerned citizen living underneath the flight path from Montgomery Airfield (“Why lead still falls from sky at Montgomery airport”, Neighborhood News, June 29, 2021). My husband and I moved into the small neighborhood of Highland off Convoy in Kearny Mesa in October 2014. At that time, we were ecstatic that we could afford a single-family home in San Diego, and I was pregnant with our first child.
I have been in this location for over a decade, and only yesterday, we discovered that lead was raining down on our home and on my nine-year-old developing child. She has been struggling with concentration in school and is being observed for ADHD. I am setting up an appointment with her pediatrician for lead testing on Friday. I am also getting tested myself. It never dawned on me that in the year 2024, we would still be using leaded gasoline in planes.
I feel stupid, upset, and extremely outraged that Montgomery is allowed to rain lead down upon our home and upon our daughter’s previous preschool, Le Lycee Francais. I am so scared about Friday’s appointment and hope we do not find any traces of lead in her blood. How can this be?
I recall signing a flood notification, a notification about the gas line pipe that runs behind our house, but nothing was disclosed about the airport and the hazardous dump of toxic lead being rained down on our neighborhood. We would have made a very different decision if we had known we were being crop dusted by lead.
I wanted to thank the Reader for this article, though it is from 2021. I just discovered it yesterday. Thank you again for your article. I hope this issue is revisited, and we start looking at the people, neighborhoods, and schools that may be gravely affected by Montgomery.
Name withheld
Kearney Mesa
Trolley Tim talkback
“Trolley Tim” (silly fake name) has declared that I am “someone who never rides the trolley...” because my experiences on the trolley in the late afternoon from the north do not match his (“SD as bad as LA?”, Letters, Sept. 11, 2024). If it didn’t happen while “Trolley Tim” was on the trolley, that I guess that means it’s fake news, misinformation, or however he chooses to discredit my account. (I must wonder what the heck I am doing with a Pronto app loaded on my phone...hmmm.) I never said, BTW, trolley avatar, that the trolley was “filled to the brim” with “undesirables” (your word, Timmy, not mine, so why the quotes?).
I mentioned that when homeless people bring in carts, wagons, bikes, etc. that these large items take up a great deal of space, making it difficult to safely stand inside a packed car. As further evidence that “Trolley Tim” has poor reading comprehension and retention, he attempted to create an us-versus-them dynamic against me, a “someone” he claims to “pity.” I have zero “disdain” for the “thousands of riders that use our transit system each day.” Why would I? I am among those “thousands,” which is how I know what I, for one, have seen and experienced.
It’s clear that this guy calling himself what sounds like the title of a children’s story book is attempting to shame me. I got news for you, Tim Timmy. That never ever works with me. Smarter guys than you, with real names, Mr. “Trolley Tim,” have tried, I will add. Hey, one more thing, “Trolley Tim.” Do you have a Pronto app that you have to load funds to, or do you ride for free? Asking for a friend. We have a bet going, I won’t tell you how I’m betting.
Laurie K
East Chula Vista
Here's something you might be interested in.
Just read 2021 story on Montgomery Field lead emissions
Trolley Tim – do you have Pronto pass?
Just read 2021 story on Montgomery Field lead emissions
Trolley Tim – do you have Pronto pass?
I have noticed how people look at the homeless with fear and disdain. So I make it a point to smile at them, and I can see the impact it makes.
Lead lament
Hello, I am a concerned citizen living underneath the flight path from Montgomery Airfield (“Why lead still falls from sky at Montgomery airport”, Neighborhood News, June 29, 2021). My husband and I moved into the small neighborhood of Highland off Convoy in Kearny Mesa in October 2014. At that time, we were ecstatic that we could afford a single-family home in San Diego, and I was pregnant with our first child.
I have been in this location for over a decade, and only yesterday, we discovered that lead was raining down on our home and on my nine-year-old developing child. She has been struggling with concentration in school and is being observed for ADHD. I am setting up an appointment with her pediatrician for lead testing on Friday. I am also getting tested myself. It never dawned on me that in the year 2024, we would still be using leaded gasoline in planes.
I feel stupid, upset, and extremely outraged that Montgomery is allowed to rain lead down upon our home and upon our daughter’s previous preschool, Le Lycee Francais. I am so scared about Friday’s appointment and hope we do not find any traces of lead in her blood. How can this be?
I recall signing a flood notification, a notification about the gas line pipe that runs behind our house, but nothing was disclosed about the airport and the hazardous dump of toxic lead being rained down on our neighborhood. We would have made a very different decision if we had known we were being crop dusted by lead.
I wanted to thank the Reader for this article, though it is from 2021. I just discovered it yesterday. Thank you again for your article. I hope this issue is revisited, and we start looking at the people, neighborhoods, and schools that may be gravely affected by Montgomery.
Name withheld
Kearney Mesa
Trolley Tim talkback
“Trolley Tim” (silly fake name) has declared that I am “someone who never rides the trolley...” because my experiences on the trolley in the late afternoon from the north do not match his (“SD as bad as LA?”, Letters, Sept. 11, 2024). If it didn’t happen while “Trolley Tim” was on the trolley, that I guess that means it’s fake news, misinformation, or however he chooses to discredit my account. (I must wonder what the heck I am doing with a Pronto app loaded on my phone...hmmm.) I never said, BTW, trolley avatar, that the trolley was “filled to the brim” with “undesirables” (your word, Timmy, not mine, so why the quotes?).
I mentioned that when homeless people bring in carts, wagons, bikes, etc. that these large items take up a great deal of space, making it difficult to safely stand inside a packed car. As further evidence that “Trolley Tim” has poor reading comprehension and retention, he attempted to create an us-versus-them dynamic against me, a “someone” he claims to “pity.” I have zero “disdain” for the “thousands of riders that use our transit system each day.” Why would I? I am among those “thousands,” which is how I know what I, for one, have seen and experienced.
It’s clear that this guy calling himself what sounds like the title of a children’s story book is attempting to shame me. I got news for you, Tim Timmy. That never ever works with me. Smarter guys than you, with real names, Mr. “Trolley Tim,” have tried, I will add. Hey, one more thing, “Trolley Tim.” Do you have a Pronto app that you have to load funds to, or do you ride for free? Asking for a friend. We have a bet going, I won’t tell you how I’m betting.
Laurie K
East Chula Vista
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