The trains go silent downtown

[sgrizzle]

Saw on the news today, installation of the new train crossing "quad gates" has begun. Once the installation is complete, the trains will no longer blow their horns at intersections within the IDL.

[sgrizzle]

http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0808/546826.html

[kylieosu]

This kinda makes me sad, actually. I live downtown, and I kinda like hearing the trains....

[MDepr2007]

Wonder what happens when the homeless start getting hit by trains.

Seriously though when does my area of Tulsa get this same treatment. I can't wait!!!!

[sgrizzle]

quote:Originally posted by inteller

quote:Originally posted by MDepr2007

Wonder what happens when the homeless start getting hit by trains.

they can't get hit because they will all be shipped to admiral and yale.

Only if the train is eastbound.

[PonderInc]

It will be interesting to see if the engineers (is that what you still call them?) can let go of the habit...  After all these years of blowing their horns, I bet they honk out of habit.

[JoeMommaBlake]

Being one block away from those trains all day, I must say...I like them.

I like the horns. I like the look of them and the sound of them going by. The only time I don't like them is when I've decided to go North on Elgin at the same time a train has decided to go east right in front of me.

In a similar story, I can't wait until there's a nice pedestrian bridge crossing over the track connecting the ballpark area with the Blue Dome District.

Talk about a fun sound downtown...the sound of baseball...and commerce...and progress.

[sgrizzle]

The quiet corridor is FINALLY complete:
http://www.newson6.com/Global/story.asp?S=12002152

[buckeye]

I work a couple blocks away from the tracks and the horns drove me crazy.  Not the two-toots-at-every-crossing variety, but the jackasses that pulled the string and didn't let go until they'd crossed the river.  Even inside the business, it was tough to hold a conversation during that kind of thing - and impossible outside.

[TheArtist]

Good, glad to see this done!

[nathanm]

And one of 'em is already broken.

[Townsend]

And one of 'em is already broken.

How'd we do that so fast?

[swake]

How'd we do that so fast?

Drunk cheerleader from Owasso?

[Townsend]

Drunk cheerleader from Owasso?

HA, never gets old.

Seriously though...one of the Tulsa World comments section trolls decide to live the dream?

[patric]

Arent most of the trains that go through the corridor robotic trains?
-- as in no one at the wheel?