City starts process to quiet crossing

... and who was there first, the railroad crossings or the development? If you don't want to listen to railroad whistles, don't build a development of houses nearby. It's the same as people who build a home around an airport and then complain about the noise. I'm just waiting for the expanding section of Dublin which has built up and around the horse farm on Hyland-Croy Road to start complaining about the smells coming from the horse farm.

Superfanjan is 100% correct, taxpayers have built mile of walls adjacent to highways that have been in place for years developers came in built subdivisions on land discounted to noise and proximatey to freeways. Quit your bitching train whistles and horns are mandated to protect idiots who need to know the trains are coming, but they are also the sound of business and freight moving across the country. My hope is more trains announcing our economy is back

Train Horns save lives, that is why they are there. Answer me this question. All these safety devices run on electricity, what happens when the power goes out and the train crew doesn't think they have to blow the horn. Yes there is a light on the signal box that crews are supposed to be able to see, but in a populated are there are lots of lights along the tracks. I know one thing, if I ever had a loved one hit by a train in a "quiet zone" I would sue the municipality and the group responsible for enacting it for all they had.

Quiet zones are safer as a result of the gate and crossing modifications. Cars can't run around gates in a quiet zone. You should make a point to educate yourself (lots of articles online if you are so inclined) In a power failure, as is the case now, the engineer can and will blow their whistle and slow their train.
As for the argument that the trains were there first, you are of course correct. But growth happens, things change, and new ideas need to be implemented to help people coexist with their environment. A quiet zone is safer, better to live by, and not expensive, by typical government project standards. I'm not sure why anyone would not be in favor of it, except to be argumentative. If you don't like growth and development and all the new neighbors that come with it, maybe you should move further out into the country.

This is only the beginning. Ballantrae residents are now looking into a petition to have radiant heat in their streets. After all, snow plows are too noisy and it will save the city money by not having to plow.

I actually looked at buying a house directly behind the horse farm 4 years ago but CHOOSE not to beause I didn't want to smell the horses and I like horses. Do your research if you think a train whistle may bother you dont buy a house near the tracks. Besides I live less than a mile from railroad tracks now and the whistle doesn't bother me as much as the loud vibration of the train.

JLK

Superfanjan wrote:

... and who was there first, the railroad crossings or the development? If you don't want to listen to railroad whistles, don't build a development of houses nearby. It's the same as people who build a home around an airport and then complain about the noise. I'm just waiting for the expanding section of Dublin which has built up and around the horse farm on Hyland-Croy Road to start complaining about the smells coming from the horse farm.

Isn't it amazing that this wasn't an issue when all that was out there were trailer parks