After East Palestine, Will Cincinnati Voters Stop Norfolk Southern From Buying Their City's Railway?

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After East Palestine, Will Cincinnati Voters Stop Norfolk Southern From Buying Their City's Railway?
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'The citizens of Cincinnati are at a historical crossroads,' wrote one locomotive engineer of Issue 22. 'The choice they make could either uphold a legacy of public ownership that has withstood the test of time or cede control to private interests.'

Cincinnati voters will decide next Tuesday whether to allow the company responsible for the toxic train crash in East Palestine, Ohio earlier this year to purchase the last remaining municipally owned interstate railroad in the United States.

'Money flowing into Cincinnati’s coffers under the current CSR lease agreement guarantees $25 million per year for infrastructure improvements in the city,' Werner Lange, a retired educator with five grandchildren living in Cincinnati, wrote in a May op-ed for the Cincinnati CityBeat. 'Under the purchase agreement signed last November, there is absolutely no such guaranteed income, only speculation,' he added.

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