To the Editor:
Perhaps I missed the story, but I still must ask about the idling of the Downeaster each day of the week from 12:25 p.m. to 5:25 p.m., starting Nov. 1.
The story certainly contains more interest to your readers than the cyclist without a helmet who was injured. Perhaps I shouldn’t compare pollution sent out by the idling of a train with the injury of the cyclist. Perhaps the diesel fumes plus the noise plus the foundation-shaking vibrations are all the ravings of a bunch of neighbors who don’t wish to have this environmental mess in their backyards, houses and the lungs of their children.
I hope you have the guts to print this letter to the editor, as well as do your duty and write a story about the coming of the pollution-spewing savior to downtown Brunswick. Perhaps.
Robert Morrison
Brunswick
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