Comments on: Railroad “quiet zones” are here, finally http://www.talkofthepoint.com/wordpress/life-inside-the-point/2005/09/23/railroad-quiet-zones-are-here-finally/ Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:42:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: JustaSoulSeekingSerenity http://www.talkofthepoint.com/wordpress/life-inside-the-point/2005/09/23/railroad-quiet-zones-are-here-finally/#comment-2 Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:51:46 +0000 http://www.talkofthepoint.com/wordpress/life-inside-the-point/2005/09/23/railroad-quiet-zones-are-here-finally/#comment-2 Hi, I can think of a lot more things I'd like to have silenced, other than train horns or whistles... Such as: *That infernal 11:00 Wednesday siren-screeching that is supposed to warn us all to hustle inside & take cover in case of local (refinery) disasters. *Those godawful "recycle trucks" with their grinding & gnashing compactors & back-up beeper noise. *Fire engines & police sirens every 5 minutes... *Ghetto-blasting car-radios that make our living room floor jump. You get the idea. There are a lot more NOXIOUS & health-damaging noises in our daily & nightly milieu than the relatively harmless train sounds we all grew up with and harbor little if any animosity toward. Hi,
I can think of a lot more things I’d like to have silenced, other than train horns or whistles…

Such as:

*That infernal 11:00 Wednesday siren-screeching that is supposed to warn us all to hustle inside & take cover in case of local (refinery) disasters.

*Those godawful “recycle trucks” with their grinding & gnashing compactors & back-up beeper noise.

*Fire engines & police sirens every 5 minutes…

*Ghetto-blasting car-radios that make our living room floor jump.

You get the idea.

There are a lot more NOXIOUS & health-damaging noises in our daily & nightly milieu than the relatively harmless train sounds we all grew up with and harbor little if any animosity toward.

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