ANAHEIM : Help Sought to Alleviate Train Noise
The City Council is trying to enlist county and state transportation agencies in resolving a nagging train noise problem that disturbs hundreds of residents near Northfield Avenue.
The council voted 5 to 0 Tuesday to request that the Orange County Transportation Authority “encourage” the California Transportation Commission to develop guidelines for sound-wall installations along railroads.
“I think it’s a great recommendation,” Mayor Tom Daly said. “I think folks who live along the railroad lines deserve some of the same mitigations as people who live near freeways.”
Northfield Avenue residents have been pressuring the City Council for more than a year to build a sound wall along the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway line to protect their neighborhood from extreme train noise.
Residents argue primary responsibility for mitigating train noise rests with city, but city officials respond the problem is a regional issue and must be solved by a number of agencies.
Northfield Avenue residents, who have picketed City Hall about the issue in the past, refused to show up for discussion of the sound wall Tuesday.
“They aren’t planning to do anything,” resident Kathy Wright said. “It’d be a waste of time to go down to City Hall again.”
Cost estimates for a sound wall run as high as $3 million.
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