Wait until they are down to two tracks downtown;
We’ve all been there — stuck at a railroad crossing waiting for the cars to pass. But imagine waiting at a crossing for a stopped train, for hours.
That’s what neighbors in a development north of I-90 off Kiwanis say is happening to them.
Neighbors say it’s happened several times; a train will be stopped at the railroad crossing for several minutes, and at times for more than an hour.
The latest stopped train was just Thursday night. Traffic was backed up in both directions for about 45 minutes.
In the past few years, Parsons says the BNSF Railway trains are stopping more frequently and for longer periods of time.
We are going to see this all over town once the rail yard closes Downtown. While we blew $27 million of Federal Tax Dollars so we could have 10 measly acres of development, we are really not solving the problem. Two of the Four tracks will remain, so the train traffic will continue, and you are going to see a lot of shuffling around.