Which was there first? The complainers or the trains?
If you don’t like noise don’t buy a house near a rail road. Trains are loud. The same can be said about living near an air port that was already there when you bought your house.
The trains were first in most case, but you asked the wrong question. I believe the whistle requirement throughout the night was a recent regulation aimed to stop idiots and suicidal folks from driving around the crossing guards.
“If you don’t like noise don’t buy a house near a rail road.”
Easy for you to say, Graybeard58 . . .
Guess you didn’t realize that recent Federal legislation forces train drivers to blow horns with certain distances from stations, and the horn noise levels have been increasing for the same reason police & fire sirens have gotten louder, due to better sound insulation on cars and drivers immersed in their own music.
I live less than 100’ fromo CSX/Amtrak/VRE/Metro tracks and the noise of the horns is ear-splitting. But it wasn’t always that way. Has gotten much worse in recent years.
I agree, you don’t have much of a right to complain about something that existed before you made a decision to move in, but if things changed since you moved in, that’s a different story.
I’m going to lobby my local officials for quiet-zones (again). I tried this once before, but this WI example re-inspired me.
You are reading my mind again. Why people buy houses near these things and then complain is ludicrous.
We have a small airport nearby. It has been there for at least 30 years. It amazes me the amount of people that have bought homes that abut it and now show up at meetings trying to close it down, because they feel its not safe? HUH? No one forced these idiots to buy those homes in that location. Its another symptom of our “but I am entitled” society.
Capital Metro in Austin just got the first shipment of the new Metro rail cars. They were testing the trains at night and bigger than ****, people started complaining about the horns.
No mention that FREIGHT trains have been using that same track for years, including at night. Most of those are hauling road base, and have three to four engines. I guess the locals there were used to those blowing their horns at night.
Exactly. See my Post 46. :)