If you are anywhere near an EJ&E rail crossing get ready for some hefty waiting!
EJ & E Traffic to Soar
The four trains that run daily on this ONE track line, often blow their train horns, even in the wee hours in the morning. The plan is to increase traffic to 30 freight trains (and HOW LONG WILL THEY BE?) and add 15 commuter trains, that is a TEN FOLD increase, and will impact State Roads Route 14, Route 59, Lake Cook Road, Ela Road, with in a 1mile radius, and there is a Level Crossing with the Union Pacific in the same space! The Trains will run more than every half hour, and the gates will be down for how many minutes at a time?
Traffic Nightmares are coming our way!
The Surface Transportation Board needs to approve this purchase of the EJ&E (owned in part by USSteel) by the Canadian National Railway, operating in the US as Grand Trunk Corporation.
From what I've heard that is merely a rubber stamp.
Of course, I'd like to think one of our government agencies - designed to protect us - would be helpful. And the STB does have a Consumer Assistance page.
(Grand Trunk is a holding company that also owns Illinois Central, Wisconsin Central and Great Lakes Transportation.)
Visit this page to see what you can do!
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