Nays: Sandberg, Gulley.

You know, there’s a bitter irony in tonight’s council vote. The majority really believed they were voting for the best chance to get a trail. And yet their vote to continue pursuing Central Illinois Railroad as the carrier probably just doomed any chance of ever getting a trail on the Kellar Branch [...]

So the predictable Journal Star editorial on the Kellar Branch today says this:

From where we sit, reports on the viability and cost of dual use of the corridor are too unreliable for that choice to be on the table now.

This was the most shocking quote in the whole editorial because the editors, for the first time [...]