XPost: bc.politics, free.activism.walmart
From: kmoiarty35@shaw.ca
"EricŪ" wrote in message
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> 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?
No, there's nothing like that here. I've seen high fences that look like
wood from the road, but upon closer inspection I realized were actually made
of some kind of concrete. I remember how out of curiosity I went behind one
such fence (at one end of it) to test for myself its effect on noise. I was
amazed at the stark difference (reduction) in noise level emanating from the
heavy traffic at that time. This fence was obviously designed with ascetic
considerations in view, probably pushing its cost higher than many would
like to imagine. Sure would be nice if something like that could be put up
around here by the tracks. But judging by the lack of supportive responses
to my post on this, I doubt there would be enough public will (or even
interest) towards funding such a project for this, hardly upper-income,
neighborhood.
> I still hear the trains, but then I like trains.
Like I said, I like trains too. Just not when the volume of their horns is
downright overwhelming intrusive (and *unrelentingly so, all day and all
night) as it presently is here. (*I should add, there have been some,
seemingly perhaps 'considerate', exceptions when at night a train's horn
will sound quieter and/or much briefer. But this is the exception. It
seems there may be permitted some discretion exercised by the engineer of a
train, and/or train company, in choosing "how" to sound the horn when it's
late at night. But even so, it's obvious most choose simply to apply the
horn at full blast without any consideration of the time of night.)
> 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.
>
That's because most of the vast sound energy emanating from the train's horn
is reaching to areas far outside of and beyond where it actually needs to be
heard.
Ken
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