Mobile Bans Train Horns In Downtown

Alabama Mobile  The city spent $200000 to create "quiet zones".  Trains won't be allowed to sound horns near downtown hotels.
by The Associated Press
Published: Wed, November 19, 2008 - 4:18 pm CST
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - Blaring train horns that have rousted
sleeping hotel guests in downtown Mobile will be falling silent as
the port city and railroad officials have agreed on a "quiet
zone" - a move that is becoming popular around the country.
Mayor Sam Jones said Wednesday the city spent about $200,000 to
implement the no-horns zones at six crossing, including the major
crossing at the convention center across from upscale hotels
downtown.
He says some had started referring to Mobile as the city that
never sleeps because of the disturbing train horns. He says safety
measures have been placed at the crossings to alert drivers. The
new quiet policy begins Thursday.


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lol well i guess the city will just have to draw names to see who gets to hold the sign each day and have a night crew with flash lights at night.

Signs that cost that much will go missing in no time. Not to worry though. If you see a bunch of personal injury attorneys hanging around the tracks, the train must be coming.. Toot toot.

hey dew, how is the family?

Lol@Rose, he’ll stick his head out the window and go “toot toot!”

so he is standing at a crossing. what happens if a car gets stuck on that crossing. should the conducter just whistle.

Yeah it’s a great idea, especially with those trees that are planted to the right of the crossing. The limbs will be covering the lights before too long, because no one will cut them. Then someone from another town will come through and get hit, or nearly hit and sue Mobile. Right on, keep em coming.

So, if I am doing the math correctly, there are six signs at a cost of $200,000. That means that each sign costs $333,333. However, I believe in giving the benefit of the doubt. So, to be fair, lets say that each crossing (there are six) had TWO signs installed instead of just one. That would mean that each sign costs $16,666. Man, those must be really nice signs.

There will be body parts of the homeless people spread all over downtown!  Some of those poor people don’t have enough sense to get out of the street much less off a railroad track.

$200,000 to agree on not blowing horns.  Pleeeese
give me a break.

justme, you must be forgetting about the 25 city workers that were standing around watching the ONE guy that was installing the signs! HAHAHA, our tax dollars hard at work.

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