aka Montreal NIMBYs larped as environmentalists to cancel a train
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.
Oh the urbanity! Also did a piece on this https://youtu.be/o5PieqjOuzA
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 ».
Cars are equally loud and even more pollution, we should never have to endure more than 60db. https://www.berlin.de/umweltatlas/en/traffic-noise/noise-pollution/1993/map-description/ If we build more elevated trains, the needs for Cars is reduced and we could move the train to the ground where right now a lot of Streets/Stroads are. And those trains/trams are way quiter than cars https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003682X21003285
Current numbers vs a study from 1993.
I would also ask you to point out where I said that cars were any better… Although let’s be clear, cars produce the same level of noise at speeds/RPM that are of no concern in urban areas, which is not the case for the REM as it produces that noise in urban areas.