Daily Herald (scroll down to “One more thing” heading) reports the US Surface Transportation Board will be in “flux” until President Trump appoints two new members later this year. A pending item on STB’s agenda is the dispute between the Illinois Tollway and the Canadian Pacific Railroad over right-of-way the tollway needs to complete a road around O’Hare Airport. A Chicagoland congressman who serves on the House Transportation Committee tells the newspaper he “doesn’t like the tollway’s odds. ‘I hate to say this — I want the toll road to get done, it’s very important — but I’m afraid the STB’s statutory bias is in favor of freight rail.’”
