Comments on: New Railroad Quiet Zones Possibly Coming Next Summer

By: arsenalroo

arsenalroo — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:22:01 +0000

Yet the Manor Rd. intersection seems to be exempt due to a complicated fix. Been honking since it started and continues til now whatever today is.

Plus the train operators seem to REALLY enjoy their horn exercises going as long as 16 seconds ensuring a rude awakening. I’m gonna find and destroy hooooooooooooooooooonkkkkkkkkkkk hoooooooooonk honk…………hooooooooooooooooooooooonkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk… hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonk guy.

These are not cute sounds and certainly not the sexy throatiness of real proper freight engines.

THEY ARE ANNOYING

By: David Crowley

David Crowley — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 05:13:14 +0000

Have any of the quiet zones been established yet? The improvements have been made to the Duval intersection for months now, but the trains are still blowing their horns. Any word on when this will be complete?

By: Joshua Leasure

Joshua Leasure — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:03:07 +0000

The rail line that passes through Round Rock and near your apartment building is different than the line that will be used by the Red Line between Leander and Downtown, so the quiet zones established with Cap Metro’s assistance won’t be of any help to you.

I’m not aware of any other plans for quiet zones. Applications for quiet zones need to be submitted by communities, and those communities need to have plans for safety equipment that would allow a quiet zone to exist. If such an effort is underway in your community, you may be able to contribute.

Looking at an overhead of your area, it looks like there is an at-grade crossing at 172/Quick Hill Road and 171. This is probably the crossing that you hear the trains sounding their horns for. It looks like there are a lot of homes very close to the tracks in the area; those people probably have it a lot worse than you do and I bet they’d love a quiet zone. Perhaps with enough community involvement one could be established.

By: Lance

Lance — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:42:01 +0000

What about North Austin rail areas, I live in a new Apt off 1325 and Quick Hill Rd. The 3:30 AM and 6AM train blasting it’s horn for far more than 20 seconds is enormously disturbing. Any plans to have a quiet zone near Mopac and 45 where the rails are under the over passes and not around intersections?