Comment EI-32549
Received or sent (printed as 10/7/2022)
Docket No. FD 36500 I'd like to address my disapproval for the CP-KCS merger. The East End of Houston, 2nd Ward, Greater Eastwood as well as NE Houston's 5th Ward area have been a parking lot for Union Pacific as well as BNSF for decades. Adding an estimated 8 to 14 trains per day through the Houston complex will only exacerbate this. I would like to add that there are zero assurances that those numbers will not grow. CP-KCS primarily wants to utilize a line in West Houston, but their documents also show an alternate route right through East Houston, an area certain to be used as Houston rail management is terrible. This area is already plagued by trains parked on at-grade street crossings frequently for hours, occasionally for a literal day plus (my civic association has proof of this). These parked trains cause innumerable problems for my community, from children crawling under to reach school on time, to cars speeding through residential streets to bypass a crossing, and emergency vehicles being rerouted during time-critical events. I blame almost all of these issues on rail operators and their poor rail management. However, I am forced to agree with Union Pacific and BNSF that adding any additional traffic to these lines will make things worse for residents in every possible ways. For these reasons I would like the STB to deny this merger. I'd also implore the STB to deeply study the Houston complex, as well as how poorly local operators manage their train loads before allowing more trains through an already hectic and slapdash rail system. Specifically I'd like a critical eye focused on crossings: 859516 V, 859517 C, 859518 J, 859519 R, 859521 S, 859522 Y, 859523 F, 859524 M, 859527 H, 859529 W, 859530 R, 859533 L, 859538 V, 288051 H, 288050 B, 288048 A, 288046 L, 288039 B, 288034 S, 440828 R, 288024 L, 288011 K, 920030 G, 288035 Y, 288221 A, 288224 V, 288226 J, 288227 R, 288228 X, & 288229 E Thank you for your attention to community concerns. Kyle Rogers
Submitted by: Kyle Rogers · Houston, TX
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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