Residents should be alarmed about increased train activity

On Saturday afternoon, March 7, around 4 p.m., I left our house near Sutton Park to collect some materials from the Cheney Library. Before I opened the door to leave, I heard a train rumbling around the curve. It got louder as I approached the library, and after I checked materials out of the library, I could hear the continual clicking of the train down First Street, so I headed southwest, and met cars backed halfway down the street toward the Cheney Federal Credit Union.

I continued to Mitchell’s Harvest Foods, and met more cars backed up at that intersection, too. There was still time for m...