On Jan 27, 2007, at 11:32 AM, Rick Archer wrote: > I agree with you, except for the train whistles point. That’s an > inconvenience to many, and especially to the financially > disadvantaged, who tend to live nearer the tracks. It would enhance > the quality of life in the town to silence those whistles.
Rick, that's misleading. The *only* people pushing it are hard-core TMers, everybody else is fine with it, including long-time home owners living right next to the tracks. It's no better or worse than whistles anywhere else in the US. There's nothing inherent about FF that makes the whistles louder. Masquerading as somehow protecting the poor, when the TMO has a history of caring less about anyone not wealthy, is really dishonest. Anyone of those TMers pushing this knew when they bought their houses that they were near the tracks. And they could easily move. A few years ago when this came up, at least one of the city council members went to a lot of trouble to get information (a lot more trouble than anyone who was pushing it, as far as I knew) and they were given a very thorough and fair hearing from the Council who then voted. It was determined that the huge inconvenience and expense to nearly the entire town, including many closed streets that everyone uses, would not be worth whatever the benefit in noise reduction might be. I'm sure you remember that. Sal To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
