Thanks to our City Manager, Susan Stanton, and the never ending persistence of Commissioner Suzanne Mulvehill, train horns on the CSX will be silenced.
Jennifer Marchal a member of Save Our neighborhood, has been working on this issue for four years to no avail. She met with the city manager several months ago who literally took the bull by the horns and got it solved. Jennifer and Tripp Ciocci learned that Tom Drake of the Federal Railroad Administration would be here in Lake Worth on February 3 for a diagnostic review of the railroad crossing. They immediately passed on this information to City Hall. Mr. Drake reported that all crossings were in compliance with the FRA's Quiet Zone Calculator. Therefore, all we had to do was file a Notice of Intent to create a Quiet Zone and Notice of Quiet Zone Establishment.
Something that had gone on for years was solved within weeks with no budgetary impact.
Many thanks to Mike Moskowitz, John Lamb, Suzanne Mulvehill and City Manager, Susan Stanton and especially Jennifer and Tripp for never giving up. We will soon be able to sleep without hearing those train horns every hour on the hour all night long. Now if we could just get rid of that barking dog.
Lynn,
ReplyDeleteThis is great news. Do you know when it goes into effect? I am listening to a train horn as I type this.
Tom
The City first has to file a notice of Intent with DOT proving that Lake Worth’s crossings meet the safety and equipment and other requirements of the Federal Railroad Administration’s Quiet Zone Calculator. They just got that. Once they file, then they give notice of Quiet Zone Establishment and file it with the Fl Dept of Transportation, CSX/Tri-Rail and the Federal Railroad Admin--probably a matter of paper work being completed. Hopefully, it is not the normal government bureaucracy.
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