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EFFORT IN IOWA ATTEMPTS TO MOBILIZE OPPONENTS TO CP-KCS MERGER
By | September 1, 2022
‘Stop The Train’ effort calls for individuals, communities, civic groups to
express opposition to STB
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A southbound Canadian Pacific oil train curves under the Government Bridge —
used by Iowa Interstate as well as vehicle traffic — in Davenport, Iowa, on a
stormy April 13, 2022. A press conference in Davenport on Tuesday aimed to
mobilize opposition to the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger. (David
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DAVENPORT, Iowa — While three of the affected cities have already reached
agreement with the railroad, an Iowa group is trying to organize opposition to
Canadian Pacific’s merger with Kansas City Southern over the projected impact on
community’s along the CP route following the Mississippi River.
KWQC-TV reports a Tuesday press conference organized by the individual who
launched a “Stop The Train” Facebook page is asking residents, local
governments, and community organizations to voice their opposition to the
Surface Transportation Board against the merger.
The two railroads merger application projects freight traffic on the line will
grow from eight to 22 trains daily. City governments in Davenport, Bettendorf,
and Muscatine have agreed to deals worth as much as $16 million to mitigate
impacts from the traffic growth [see “Davenport, Iowa, reaches agreement …,”
Trains News Wire, Aug. 3, 2022].
Davenport Aldeman Marion Meginnis told the Iowa Capital Dispatch that her
approach to the agreement was “pragmatic … If we hadn’t done this, we would be
sitting here today with maybe nothing — probably nothing.”
Opponents say the increased rail traffic has the potential to bring additional
air, water, and noise pollution, and will disrupt access to riverfront
attractions. John Gardner, former president of the Quad Cities Development
Group, said civic groups should be asked why they are or are not “being
important players in trying to rescue or save the riverfront from what would be
a real significant barrier.”
CP spokesman Andy Cummings told the station the railroad was continuing to hold
discussions with a number of communities. He noted that the draft environmental
impact statement from the STB’s Office of Environmental Analysis concluded that
“apart from train noise,” the merger would have little adverse environmental
impact [see “STB draft review finds …,” News Wire, Aug. 5, 2022].
A similar opposition group formed in a group of Chicago suburbs, the Coalition
to stop CPKC, is seeking up to $9.5 billion to mitigate merger impacts. CP and
KCS have called that group’s conditions “untenable,” “overreaching,” and
“infeasible” [see “CP, KCS dispute Metra merger contentions …,” News Wire, July
14, 2022.]
The STB has scheduled four public meetings on the environmental document,
including one in Itasca, Ill., on Sept. 12, and one in Davenport on Sept. 13.
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11 THOUGHTS ON “EFFORT IN IOWA ATTEMPTS TO MOBILIZE OPPONENTS TO CP-KCS MERGER”
1. Gerald McFarlane says:
September 1, 2022 at 5:37 am
Just ignore all the naysayers and approve as is with no conditions…it’s
probably the last merger we’ll see in a few decades anyways.
Reply
1. Daniel Carleton says:
September 1, 2022 at 12:29 pm
That’s their impetus: this is the looters last chance to extract any
tribute from the railroads so they are going all in…and will most likely
come up empty.
Reply
2. Charles Landey says:
September 1, 2022 at 6:34 am
Maybe “blackmail” is too strong a term for paying off these communities.
When you pay “blackmail” it never ends, they just keep jacking up the price
until they own your grandchildren’s grandchildren. You pay off one
community, the next community wants more, then more, then more …. and the
list of communities with railroad tracks just keeps getting longer and
longer and longer. There’s lots of towns between Calgary or Montreal down to
southwestern Mexico. If all of them have you up against the wall, that’s
more money than the railroad will ever see.
Go to any Chicago suburb. Lots of trains (freight and passenger), lots of
grade crossings, no sound walls. Doesn’t seem to bother the people who live
or shop or go to restaurants in those places. I have scheduled my third trip
of this year to my own favorite spot — LaGrange on the Burlington — unless
there’s to be a rail strike. More people walking about the streets than in
some central cities like Milwaukee. Can’t all be railfans like me, most of
them probably are not.
Reply
1. Mark Ottesen says:
September 1, 2022 at 12:20 pm
LaGrange is one of my favorite places to watch trains, eat and shop.
Sometime I hop on a commuter train to Union Station and spend some time
in the Loop and along Michigan Ave.
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3. Laurence Carbonetti says:
September 1, 2022 at 11:50 am
I wonder if the same folks organize opposition when traffic increases on
local roads and highways.
Reply
4. Galen Riley says:
September 1, 2022 at 1:36 pm
My thoughts exactly Mr. Carbonetti! And if they did voice any opposition to
a road/hwy plan they’d be promptly silenced by the rest of the citizenry!
Reply
5. Mike Woodside says:
September 1, 2022 at 6:39 pm
Laurence: Good point, …..see below
Charles: Very good point. In that, I was going to ask Daniel, who the
“looters” were in his comment. You answered that question. endmrw0901221838
Reply
1. Daniel Carleton says:
September 1, 2022 at 8:44 pm
Ever read Atlas Shrugged?
Reply
6. John Harvey says:
September 1, 2022 at 9:04 pm
Gotta love NIMBY’s. Don’t make me suffer to the benefit of others.
Reply
7. Andrew Winegar says:
September 2, 2022 at 6:25 am
*Sigh*
As a lifelong Iowa resident, I weep for these NIMBYs lack of historical
remembrance. At one point in Iowa’s history, no point was more than 9 miles
from a rail line. This was probably a hundred years ago after the race to
get to Council Bluffs and the eastern terminus of the Transcontinental
Railroad, and it was overbuilt, but Iowa has a long history of being an
important railroad state. Several major, heavily-trafficked lines still run
through. What’s one more?
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8. John Rice says:
September 2, 2022 at 10:51 pm
John Gardner, former president of the Quad Cities Development Group, said
civic groups should be asked why they are or are not “being important
players in trying to rescue or save the riverfront from what would be a real
significant barrier.”
All this for what is essentially an organized flood plain for the
Mississippi River. People have forgotten that the area he is all up in a
twit about also serves another civic purpose, a place for the water to go
when the river is at flood stage.
The only alternative would be to elevate the rails yet further. This would
be doable if the architecture of the rail bridge was something of a unique
design and pleasing to the eye as opposed to a standard concrete pylon and 2
plate girders.
So Mr Gardner, you want to save your riverfront? Start saving some dough!
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