(Source: Radio Iowa, August 18, 2022)
The Camanche City Council has turned down the settlement Canadian Pacific Railroad is offering to address far more train traffic in the area. Canadian Pacific offered Camanche $200,000, for closing two of the seven railroad crossings in Camanche to cross traffic. The mayor of Camanche has told media outlets in the Quad Cities area that is not acceptable and, if a train carrying crude oil from Canada derailed, the only escape route for 1200 Camanche residents would be the Mississippi River.
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