Railroad traffic has become a nuissance

[Dan Alaimo]

The train came through at about 7:45 again today, and again at around 8:30, and this time it caused us some inconvenience. Can't they just avoid the commuting/school traffic hours? They were doing it for a long while. When the topic last came up, much of the train traffic shifted to the middle of the night and that seemed to work.

I recall a statement by the current mayor from November 2014. While he said some things about quiet zones and updating crossings, he also said: "“Trains make sense. They’re environmentally friendly; they’re more cost-effective; they put fewer demands on our road-and-bridge infrastructure and they’re more economically competitive.”"
Am I the only one who found that a bit jarring, like the mayor was taking the railroad's side vs. his constituents?
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