Comment EI-13145
Received or sent (printed as 9/24/2008)
This email is to oppose the proposed purchase of the EJ and E rail line by Canadian National. That purchase will significantly increase rail traffic and will have dramacic impact on the School district's transportation system. As the third largest district in the state, Indian Prairie transports 17,500 students each day. The rail line in question stretches more than 11 miles through the district with seven schools located within a half mile of the tracks. There are two grade-level crossings of particular concern. School buses cross the Ogden Avenue tracks a total of 164 times each day and the Montgomery Avenue tracks 139 times each day. If the proposed sale goes through, there is an expected increase not only in the number of trains traveling though the community, but also in train length. Gate closures are anticipated to increase up to 10 minutes per train. Delays created by rail traffic will impact students arrival to school as well as their timely return home. I have big concerns about the proposed rail purchase. Please do not allow this to happen.
Submitted by: Carol Robertson · Plainfield, IL
The Board publishes this comment in its environmental-comment table for this proceeding. It is quoted here as printed; nothing is inferred from it, and it states the commenter's own position in their own words, not this record's.
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