>At the request of Village residents who live within earshot of two Ho-Ho-Kus grade level railroad crossings (Hollywood Avenue and Glenwood Road), the Village Council last night listened to an engineering consultant describe how train horn “quiet zones” could be established. However, Council members seemed rather uninterested in moving beyond the listening stage after learning that expenses associated with implementation of a federally approved plan could cost between $200K – $1.2 million. So for now, this proposal seems dead in the water.
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>Huh? I do not live near the train line nor do I hear it from my home (I am a cyclist who is in the area on a regular basis anywhere between the hours of 5 and 6am).
I have, though, wondered how annoying it must be in the early AM when the trains start blowing their whistles.
$200k-$1.2mil to fix??? You have to be seriously kidding me. Unfortunately I wasn’t at this meeting so I am sure it was addressed as to why the train engineer couldn’t just give a toot toot when going into ANY town.
Now that I think about it, why is it I never hear the whistle on weekends.
>I really feel for those who live close to tracks, especially where the trains sound their horns. But, remember those horns are sounded for a reason — safety! In the fall of 1984 an honors student at RHS was killed at the Glenwood Road crossing (before gates were installed). We will never know, but perhaps one extra toot of the horn would have alerted her that there was an express coming through the station.
>The trains we hear are the gravy trains bringing all that money back home to Ridgewood. Better safe than dead. Might as well get up and ride around with the cyclist who is deaf on the weekends.
>over 1 million bucks just to state the obvious welcome to new jerky..
this is stupid and the first dummy that get run over is going to sue your behinds
>Do people who move in next to train tracks actually expect not to hear trains??!
>The only people who have any right to complain about the trains would be the ones that moved in prior to the railroad coming to Ridgewood. Anybody here since the 1850’s? No…OK. You bought/built your home by the tracks subsequent to the railroad being here. Deal with the trains and the horns that are sounded for safety and have been for over 150 years. And yes the railroad is a major factor in what made Ridgewood what it is today.
>no one is complaining its just the village council trying to make a lot of money out of nothing
>obviously the federal laws have changed since many folks moved here in the 1960s…and BEFORE.. the trains are now REQUIRED to blast 4x at each crossing. Interestingly in a modern automobile with closed windows one cannot hear the whistles,,yet they continue to disturb the quiet for MILES around. I think in the interest of safety, everytime I drive down Ridgwood ave I am going to blast my car horn FOUR times @ EACH and EVERY CROSSWALK so that no pedestrians get run over. The federal law is THAT DUMB. The gates are there. IF the engineer sees some dope crossing then let him blast the horn..but FOUR LOUD blows in the middle of the nite..come on…this isnt Kansas with unprotected crossings. I live nowwhere near the trains, and can acutally hear the susquehanna trains blasting away in midland park@ lake street!
>Agreed with 6:15, honk for no reason at all when you come to a crosswalk or street light — it is only polite to warn people of the eminent danger they may be facing. After all automobiles have the highest casualty rates of almost any danger out there.
Look out pedestrians…
>Train horns can be very loud but you know when you move somewhere to epxect it. I feel a Train horn is a needed thing for safety
>WHAT ABOUT HAVING A HOSPITAL QUITE ZONE,LIKE THEY DO IN MT. LAKES,NJ FOR ST. CLARES HOSPITAL, THAT WOULD BE GREAT, AND NOT HARD TO DO AND MAKE LIFE A LITTLE NICER FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE, INCLUDING THE PATIENTS AT VALLEY.