You make good points, Robert. People can tell you're a lawyer. The
Madison urban environment is chock full of noise -- multiple gunshots at
night, sirens. cars and trucks hitting bumps and sometimes each other,
constant lawnmowers and leaf blowers, construction noise, and just daily
bustle. Why I lived for two decades in country solitude, just to get
away from it. But your argument of a lack of ped-bike fatalities caused
by buses during the period of use is pretty compelling. Maybe this noise
is desirable.
Bill
On 6/17/2015 4:26 PM, Robert F. Nagel wrote:
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?
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:13 AM, <[email protected]
<mailto:[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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