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  • AeroLemming@lemm.eeEnglish
    45·
    8 months ago

    NIMBY applies to stuff like urban housing development and certain kinds of healthcare clinics. Not wanting loud-ass fucking trains rolling through 24/7 is perfectly reasonable. Too many people don’t care enough about noise pollution.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      8 months ago

      I live two blocks from a set of active train tracks, the irritating bit isn’t the train itself, it’s the horn. As they pass through downtown and pass the multiple level crossings, they just blare the damn thing.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        8 months ago

        So the problem isn’t trains near houses, it’s train crossings near houses where horns are required. Fix the crossings to not require horns and you’re golden.

        We have a commuter rail that used to sound its horns all the time, so they fixed the interactions and most if not all intersections no longer require horns.

        • B0rax@feddit.de
          1·
          8 months ago

          Strange. Trains don’t even have horns in my country as far as I know. At least I have literally never heard one, and I take the train quite often.

          • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
            1·
            8 months ago

            They all do, here. The6 blow them when coming up to road crossings to give warning that you better not be on the tracks.