Talk:Placentia, California

Did Tiger Woods ever actually live in Placentia? I thought he was from Cypress.

Table added
Installed a table that summarizes key points (as well as uploading the city's seal) --Scott 03:49, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:58, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

This number does not compute.
The article currently reads, "The city is currently in debt more than $2,000.000." Euro style uses a comma for a decimal point, period to divide groups of digits; American style uses the opposite; what style is this?Friendly Person (talk) 14:29, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * There was a double typo, as the figure is closer to $20,000,000.-choster (talk) 05:22, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

LATimes says $55 million
This article contains obsolete information about the current state of the rail system going through there, which is BNSF, according to the LATimes. It looks like after it was finally accepted by everyone that the old plan for entrenched rail lines was not going to happen, the heavy corridore there was turned in to a "Quiet Zone" using Safetran vital HD/Links, spread spectrum radios, Wayside Access Gateways, and I think some additional interlocking devices and event recorders.

So Placentia became the 6th city in the United States to have a designated Quite Zone that met FRA et al. requirements in an effort to improve the quality of life -- 30 trains a day so far yet expected to go to 90 a day by the year 2020 (around one train every 12 minutes or so, day and night.)

Also the Los Angeles Times stated (http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jun/29/local/me-quiet29) that by June of 2007, the money dumped in to the old plan was around $55 million, not $20 million, so it's anybody's guess what numbers are accurate.

I believe I will add comments about what Safetran equipment did to resolve the locomotive issues there, and create a new page covering the Quiet Zone. It wound up being much less expensive to apply safety-vital technology at interlockings than to sink the rail beds and bridge the various crossings. Fredric Rice (talk) 21:46, 24 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Oh, someone removed entirely all discussion about the Quiet Zone that was put through the city -- which is a shame because the city was one of the first cities ever to implement Quiet Zones. NotSoOldHippy (talk) 00:25, 16 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I don't know who removed it, I only just now see that it has been. It could be that the Quiet Zone has been removed yet I doubt it. I'll check, if the Quiet Zone is still in effect I should add something about it. As a historic landmark, implementing a Quiet Zone in the city was a first, and it has been a model that is being copied nationally -- if however slowly. Thanks for pointing this out! Damotclese (talk) 16:18, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

No drive-thru's in Placentia?
Last time I was in Placentia I noticed none of the restaurants located in the city itself had drive-thru's. I was told Placentia has an ordinance against this. This is unique as Fullerton, Yorba Linda, and Anaheim right on the edges of the city, sometimes right across the street do have the drive-thru's, alas I can not find anything on Google, but if anyone knows something about this they should add it to the article. 99.99.50.100 (talk) 19:29, 29 September 2011 (UTC)


 * I believe this was an ordinance that has been repealed as there are new drive-thrus that have been built in the city in recent years. (Wienershnizel on Chapman/Melrose is one). However the ordinance was the reason that the reason that the In-N-Out on Chapman/Placentia is one of only two In-N-Out stores without a drive-thru, but this is all just what I remember and heard, legitimate sources would be needed.Pollox87 (talk) 19:36, 29 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Some years back the State of California looked at disallowing drive-throughs for all fast food places that were built after the proposed ban. The idea was to reduce the number of vehicles running and burning gasoline while waiting at windows. Problem with that was that doing so was utterly insignificant in terms of pollution compared with the number of vehicles on the State's highways and roadways, so the notion was abandoned.
 * Individual cities were left to impliment such rules as they desired, yet it does not seem to be a significant improvement in pollution emissions when done. Damotclese (talk) 16:21, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

All other things aside,
...this is possibly the silliest real town name I've seen for a while 130.132.198.162 (talk) 22:01, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
 * What for? It's an Italian name which means "pleasant town." It dates back to 218 BCE. Damotclese (talk) 22:42, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

First National Quiet Zone
The article really should talk briefly about the city having the first ever FRA-accepted "Quiet Zone" for the trains which pass through every day. Safetran Systems (now Siemens) implemented the Quiet Zone a long time ago, and the Zone is still in effect. It solved the fiasco with the wasted millions that resulted in lawsuits and criminal indictments. SoftwareThing (talk) 16:58, 20 May 2019 (UTC)