This was in the 5/13/09 Chicago Tribune.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-cn-delays-submay13,0,5815632.story
CN reports all requested circumstances, which, unfortunately doesn’t include all of the instances where folks are inconvenienced. The crossing gate incidents tickle me, since they have nothing to do with CN, and likely would have happened even if the sale didn’t go through.
So we have a conflict between someone trying to run a railroad and a group whose ultimate goal would be to have the tracks lifted.
Here we go again, typical NIMBY complaints, and Aroura sees alot of train traffic on the BNSF line. So would Darch and Mayor of Aoura just stop complaining and addapt. (Shesh)
Political figures in IL calling accusing someone or something less than honest…boy if this isn’t a case of the pot calling the kettle black…wow.
I quite agree. [^][yeah]
Go easy on the political commentary, please, fellas. [:)]
-Crandell
But, politics is the lightening-rod focal-point of this topic. How can we have an intelligent discussion of what is going on without pointing out that the people causing the issue say “it has something to do with where the choo choo go” (for the Blazing Saddles fans out there)
When is the railfan Rally in Barrington scheduled anyways?
Ed
Have any of you seen the six minute plus video that TRAC has on their web site? It depicts an emergency call by four Barrington city vehicles (one police car, one fire supervisors vehicle, one fire truck and one ambulance) getting stuck at a crossing on the EJ&E (now CN) crossing in their town. It was obviously staged…interesting that the Village of Barrington used TAXPAYER DOLLARS to stage this little video (the cost of using the Village vehicles at the very least). If I lived in Barrington I would not be too happy about that. Opinions?
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Dude, your post screams of politix. I can’t ask you to trim your sails, but . . . [al]
Are you sure you’re not from Barrington?
Omaha, Nebr. - Wednesday, 13 May 2009
The Barrington vs. CN issue is never going to quiet down until some kind of street/railroad grade separation scheme is worked out. The Northwest Highway crossing (U.S. 14) involving a four lane road probably would work out the best for the Village, but it would be a mighty expensive proposition, especially considering the nearly 90-degree curve just east of the crossing and the presence of Flynn Creek just west of it. A bridge over the tracks makes more sense at that location than trying to tunnel under.
Tunneling under the tracks at the Hough St. crossing (Ill. 59) could make sense, but there are some residential issues there that would have to be worked-out.
The Main St. (Lake-Cook Rd.) crossing connecting the residential/commercial side of town with the high school and Barrington Hills also might be a candidate for a roadway underpass, but again this would involve disrupting surrounding residential neighborhoods.
No matter how the problem is ameliorated, the NIMBYs will scream loud and long until some mutually satisfactory solutions between both parties are found.
/s/ Bob
I wonder if the 'burbs will want sound baffles, too . . . ? - a.s.
Yes, it’s staged.
They filmed it last summer with a regular old EJ&E train. The trees aren’t “full out” like that here yet. They have no shame and they will lie. Hey, I guess that makes the government of Barrington just like the Illinois state government. Must be in the water. And anything in the water would be CN’s fault.
I live in Naperville and have been a taxpaying resident for 17 years (at about $14,000 a year), so I have a stake in all this.
It is not political commentary. It is the truth. This entire issue is all about politics, and local elected officials grandstanding to earn points for the next election. CN hasn’t even come close to getting up to speed on what it will move on the J, yet the critics’ strategy is to complain early, often and as loudly as possible over the smallest incident. Now,I could make a comment about borrowing this type of strategy, but THAT would be a political comment.
The gross hypocrisy about all this is that these towns NEVER were on record to this extent when the J was running things for the last 100 years or so – even the last 10 years. These towns NEVER kept any records. But now it has been turned into a “cause” – something for the NIMBYs to sip sun tea and munch flatbreads over.
Not only that, but I’d be willing to make a small wager that the very existence of Barrington is partly or mostly due to the railroad’s presence.
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Tell Rep Linda Holmes et al, to appropriate a boatload of cash to build yet another six-lane highway through the 'burbs and CN will truck all that freight. They’ll also have to build two transloading yards to move the freight from rail to truck and back again on the other side of Chicago. I’m sure she’ll have no shortage of volunteers (among those thousands) to be the stevedores (OK teamsters) to do the transloading so they can keep their neighborhoods safe from all those scary trains. All they need to do is serve flatbread in the cafeteria.
(sigh)
The state of Illinois has not been right since that cow kicked over that lantern back in the 1870s…
Must have been something in that smoke that makes everyone act weird…
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