Comment EI-32334
Received or sent (printed as 9/27/2022)
Trains have caused constant hindrances to my quality of life while living in the Quad Cities. While working, taking phone calls, or trying to sleep, passing trains blow their horns and shake entire buildings. The merger between Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern would advance these interruptions by 300% with 14 more trains than what currently exists. The draft Environmental Impact Statement cited noise as the main impact of the train merger but fails to mention that trains typically reach sound levels of 96-110 decibels when 70 decibels is what is safe for human ears. Anything above 85 decibels can cause hearing loss. Please consider the impact of increased noise levels that would be brought on by 14 more trains a day in the final Environmental Impact Statement and reject this merger.
Submitted by: Morgan Kinch · Ankeny, 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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