XPost: bc.politics, free.activism.walmart   
   From: eric@hardknocks.edu   
      
   Ken Moiarty wrote:   
      
   > I'm honestly not interested getting the tracks moved to somebody else's   
   > 'back yard' or any other selfishly unrealistic ambition.  I only want to   
   > know how to go about motivating the local powers that be to consider   
   > implementing *alternative crossing-safety measures which obviate compulsory   
   > use of the train horn* at those crossings.   
      
   You've robably noticed that they have high fences between the Trans-   
   Canada and 'new' subdivisions in the Fraser valley - in order to block   
   out some of the traffic noise.  Where I live housing developments near   
   rr tracks have included an earth berm to do the same.  Did they do that   
   in your area?   
      
   I still hear the trains, but then I like trains.  I don't think that   
   there's any way they'd stop sounding their horns - it's amazing how   
   something so enormous can be so quiet when it's approaching you.   
      
   Eric Schild   
      
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