'Disaster' scenario being painted is overstated

In follow-up to your page 1 story, "Traffic jams just a preview" on June 19, let's be realistic.

I live near the Canadian National railroad line that the trains currently traverse. I cross it several times a day. It is infrequent to be stopped by a train, and when I am, it is only momentary.

Yet all sorts of disaster is forecast if these same trains (which I rarely encounter) are shifted to the EJ&E rail line. I think Barrington residents and their neighboring communities are scared of an unrealistic scenario.

Brian Buchanan

Mount Prospect