[RP TownTalk] Train horns

[S Collins]

I have to agree with those that the horns should NOT stop; If you see the chances that people who are driving, walking, biking, etc., take around those tracks, every safety measure possible should be used to warn people of oncoming trains.  And those trains CANNOT stop 'on a dime'; one engineer told me if he wants to stop at the Queensbury Road crossing, even if he's going very slow, he has to apply the brake about 1/4 mile before the stop.   As for the noise?  well, I live in the apartment building on Ravenswood and Lafayette, my apartment faces the tracks, and the only thing between my building and the tracks is Lafayette Avenue - when I moved into the building, I figured that there would be trains on those tracks and I managed to get used to the horns very quickly.  Comes with the territory.   


     On Monday, October 26, 2015 2:32 PM, Mary Vechery <drmvechery at gmail.com> wrote:
   

 I do not agree with the horns stopping..  yes they are annoying, I used to live directly across from that intersection for a few years and understand.  however, that intersection is still one of the most dangerous intersections with pedestrians crossing when they shouldn't and just last Thursday yet another motorist got his car jacked up on the tracks.  train horns signal a train coming for a reason. Mary
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:02 PM, adrian limmen <adrianlimmen at gmail.com> wrote:

I guess when I moved in next to train tracks I expected to hear some horns.  I do not expect them to stop.
On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 9:27 AM, kathy galleher <kgalleher at yahoo.com> wrote:

Glad we are talking about the horns.  Count me as one who does care if they sound the horns. (  I love to be able to sleep with windows open at night, but the close-to-midnight train horn festival makes that very difficult...)Now that the quiet zone has been established, we have some grounds for asking them to stop. I would like to know if there is someone we can contact to ask if they can request the engineers to stop or reduce the horns as they pass through.  If we ask, at least there is some additional incentive to change the current practice.Kathy 
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