I'm not indifferent about noise. I'm not indifferent about safety. I'm not
indifferent about the scientific method.

On the other hand, it's hard to believe that Metro just folded on the
audible turn signals so easily.

A pedestrian was killed by a bus turning left at University and Lake
streets.

http://host.madison.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/pedestrian-dies-after-being-hit-by-metro-bus/article_af7db33c-9cdc-11e0-8558-001cc4c002e0.html

http://host.madison.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/uw-library-employee-killed-by-bus-remembered-as-great-storyteller/article_f658af00-9dbd-11e0-a246-001cc4c002e0.html

Sometime after that, Metro implements an audible turn signal to warn of
busses turning.

Nobody is killed under similar circumstances since.

Then, some selfish light sleepers get worked-up about this, even though the
busses probably just go by about once an hour or so after dark for a couple
hours until the busses go to bed for the night, and turn this into a noise
pollution campaign.

Then, Metro folds on what seemed like and still seems like a good idea.

Am I missing something?

---

Robert F. Nagel, Attorney
Law Offices of Robert Nagel
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www.nagel-law.com
Thirty on the Square, 10th Floor
30 W. Mifflin St., Suite 1001
Madison, WI  53703
608-255-1501 office
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608-438-9501 cell

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:13 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Many of you will be glad to hear that we no longer have to hear the
> > bleeping buses.
> > Now all the other bus and urban noise confusion is the only thing left to
> > deal with :)
> > john
>
> During the same errand by bicycle, I passed by a bus using the audible
> signal, and within minutes was on the east isthmus bikie highway, parallel
> to railway tracks and alongside a train using its whistle.  Guess which
> one was intrusive and audibly painful and which one barely had a negative
> effect at all (indeed, no negative effect).
>
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