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Railroad Crossing
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I have 6 children and the train is waking them up during the night and early morning hours as early as 4:36 am . They are all tired in the morning. One of my high schoolers is really struggling with exhaustion because she has a hard time going back to sleep after the horn wakes her up and it wakes her up several times during the hours she should be sleeping. I also have a 3 year old nonverbal autistic foster son and when the horn wakes him up I can not always get him back to bed.
I hope the crossing at Padelford St. will also be considered for quiet hours, as I can hear the train at both crossings from my house in Myricks with the windows closed! I will not be able to open my windows during the warmer months if the train continues to sound the horn throughout the night. We live miles from the tracks and it still wakes us up in the middle night.
Berkley is a well established small town where I have lived for the better of 54 years. We had much experience with freight trains which were quite tolerable. The commuter rail is the other end of the spectrum! When you have rails that come come and bells that ring as thing as the train approaches, it is unnecessary to have a horn blowing for a 1/2 mile before, during and after the train crosses which is tracks. It is noise pollution and disruption of quality of life. It is especially not a “safety concern” on our street where traffic is limited to the people that live there and associated deliveries to those families. People understand what the purpose of the bell, flashlights and rails; the horns are overkill especially during what would be considered civil quiet hours.
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