Yeah, i kind of agree with Rick here. Would be an easy improvement to the quality of life fo some here.
i do not want to get in the way of your issue but really? <"At that level of traffic we will be beginning to have long term hearing loss in the entire community. The sound levels of 110 to 120 db can be heard at that level to one mile away from the tracks."> However, that claim seems to defy newtonian physics. But you might have something on the psychic spiritual level we don't. There is no practical way someone standing on the square or in front of the library is suffering hearing loss from a train. At that distance it just sounds quaint. You're starting to sound like the TMorg when you claim like that. I'm sure there is some peer-review research you can pull on though. -D in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rick Archer writes: > For me it's not a TM issue. If TMers are pushing it, that's > coincidental. Or maybe they're fussy. I don't care. Train whistles are > not a life or death issue for me. I just think that silencing them > would be one more thing which would enhance the quality of life here. > Of course, if we wait long enough and alternative energies really take > off, so that we stop burning coal,there will be very few trains coming > through, so the issue will be moot. > > Tom T: > from my side it appears that when this issue first came up we were > getting the same old 12 to 15 trains a day thru FF. THis past year we > were at 58 trains a day with that total to go to 130+ this year. With > that kind of high usage the Burlingoton Norhtern is forced to be > maintaining the track during the day time 10 months of the year and > any nice non snowing days in the winter. The effect of this high usage > and maintance is to put most of the traffic through town in the 5 PM > to 7 AM time line. That is when most kids are out playing and adults > are out doing whatever they do in the nicer weather. At that level of > traffic we will be beginning to have long term hearing loss in the > entire community. The sound levels of 110 to 120 db can be heard at > that level to one mile away from the tracks. That includes the entire > town. Think about the effects of any long term hearing loss at that > level and we are talking over 10 trains an hour during the non > maintance time. This is not an insignificcant amount of noise. THis is > when we start to lose it. THe lights will stay on, on the East coast, > for a long time but your hearing will not last that long. Tom >
