33407, August 31, 1998. Since they lost that argument, their train traffic projections have taken a marked turn upwards, with some of their members now suggesting that the project will mean 70 trains per day. They offer no market analysis or backup evidence of any kind. Independent Traffic Forecasts. NE 107 Lusk, WY 80 Columbus, NE 60 Fostoria, OH 160 Newcastle, WY 75 Moorhead, MN 71 Conclusion.
Energy is a national resource.
We all share in generating the demand. It is in the public interest to spread out the train traffic impacts. Many of the communities on the competing routes currently experience train traffic counts exceeding 100 trains per day. There is a strong public policy argument to make for providing relief to those other communities.