'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
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