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 The Chronicle welcomes you online! Please feel free to respond to these editorials or letters to the editor by sending your letters to the editor.

We condense letters; most, as published, won't exceed 300 words. A letter must include the writer's name and city, which will be published, and an address and telephone number for verification, which will not be published. Writers may be limited to one letter every 30 days. Open letters, letters to third parties and poetry are not considered. Letters from people living outside the Chronicle's circulation area usually are not considered.

Warns of danger of speeding trains

Web posted August 20, 1998

Editor, The Chronicle:

Why do the trains travel through Augusta so slowly? The operators know they can make up for lost time as they travel through the valley area.

Emergency Management Director Pam Tucker's remarks (Channel 12, July 30) that the trains, with their dangerous chemicals, going slow was good but slower would be even better, are really a joke. She is invited to cross the state line and check out what we live with day and night.

The same trains that travel so slowly in Augusta, with these same dangerous chemicals, just lay on the horn and go at unreal speeds (in South Carolina).

We should be so lucky as to have them use the same speed through these small towns and have consideration for the lives of the many people who live within 150 feet of the tracks.

I hope Ms. Tucker's disaster training never has to be used, but everyday with every train, it's only a matter of time. The next time that slow train comes through Augusta, just think of how many people it terrorized before it got there.

Barbara Hoar, Bath