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From: kmoiarty35@shaw.ca
I want to qualify my statement, "judging by the lack of supportive responses
to my post on this": This was an error. I was actually referring to
responses I received to my other posting on this issue in another newsgroup
(van.general). Sorry about that.
Ken
"Ken Moiarty" wrote in message
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> "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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