Opinion

Let's share burden of freight traffic

Posted July 13, 2008 11:00 pm

Thanks to state Reps. Rosemary Mullins and Carolyn Krause for supporting the proposed Canadian National purchase of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway, and also supporting the STAR Commuter Line.

This would help the communities from Mundelein, Buffalo Grove, Prospect Heights, Wheeling, Des Plaines, Mount Prospect and Arlington Heights. These towns have carried the burden of freight train traffic for many, many years.

It seems that U.S. Representatives James Oberstar, Daniel Lipinski, Melissa Bean, Peter Roskam, Judy Biggert and Don Manzullo are not in agreement and are not concerned about helping the communities that have been affected for years, but are turning their attention to the Barrington area.

I guess it's true that the squeaky wheel gets the oil.

The fair thing to do would be to spread the freight traffic around all the communities. After all, we would all like to save gas and time idling at the crossings.

Lou Ann Mulholland

Des Plaines

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