A host of public advocates have taken the conductor’s seat to drive information on possible negative impacts the planned BNSF Railway Logistics Park Phoenix project will have on Northwest Valley communities once construction begins some time later this year.

But BNSF Railway officials are providing pushback on an array of what the company said is misinformation about the proposed $3.2 billion, 4,300-acre development planned near 215th Avenue and U.S. 60.

Lena Kent, the BNSF Railway general director of public affairs, said one of the biggest issues is that of truck traffic through the region, and that “the trucks are not going by the school or the residents as some have said.”

That was a concern of a July letter sent by Nadaburg Unified School District Principal Aspasia Angelou, who wrot

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