aka Montreal NIMBYs larped as environmentalists to cancel a train
Oh the urbanity! Also did a piece on this https://youtu.be/o5PieqjOuzA
Immagine having space for trains on the ground. Elevated Trains need to be elevated because we clinge to a car dependent infrastructure, otherwise we would have more than enough space.
Ground tracks can divide neighborhoods in the same ways a highway can; but still a very valid point. We don’t think twice about bulldozing and cutting for roads.
Well, they registered levels of noise higher than the safety margin in people’s backyard during the test phase… So yeah, there a pretty good reason to complain when you have to hear that every 4 minutes…
Faisant référence à des sons captés pour en mesurer les niveaux dans Pointe-Saint-Charles mercredi, notamment dans La Presse, il évoque « des pics atteignant 75 décibels, alors que la santé publique recommande que l’on ne dépasse pas 55 décibels […]. On est au-delà de ce qui est raisonnablement acceptable ».