Comment EI-32150
Received or sent (printed as 8/24/2022)
As the individual directly responsible for the health and safety of our team members and the community we serve, I am extremely concerned with the recent US Surface Transportation Board’s (STB) review and analysis of the Canadian Pacific‐Kansas City Southern merger. It should be noted that the impact study on crossing delays only included 277 crossings and only crossings with more than 2,500 cars per day were studied. This means smaller cities like ours and many others were not included or considered. It would appear that the study was done to support the merger and not to truly show the overall impact to all of the cities and town along the entire route. Given the initial analysis indicated the train lengths potentially doubling, and train travel frequency increasing to three times greater than the current schedule, I am choosing to submit comments requesting the STB further investigate and analyze the potential hazards and delay that would adversely affect the CFD and the community members we serve that will be negatively impacted by these changes. Our city is divided by the Canadian Pacific Railroad Tracks and over 400 residences and 100% of our boat ramps to access the river are temporarily isolated from emergency services everytime a CP train passes through our city. In the past year alone, we recorded more than 100 emergency calls to these areas. I believe this merger would compromise the critical effectiveness of our Paramedics, EMTs and firefighters, and the health and livelihood of those who need timely response. This merger will significantly increase the frequency and duration of these periods of isolation from emergency servicesfor this area of our city. For these reasons, the CFD is requesting that the STB require more data, analysis and transparency as it relates to the Canadian Pacific‐Kansas City Southern merger. For the health and safety of our department, and the Citizens of Camanche, we believe this is a reasonable request.
Submitted by: Dave Schutte · Camanche Fire Department · Camanche, IA
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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