Bill Kirby Jr.: There is a reason for train whistles, and it's called 'public safety'
Dan Culliton, a freshman city councilman, is calling for a “quiet zone” in downtown Fayetteville, whereby CSX and Amtrak would refrain from blowing locomotive horns to alert motorists and pedestrians of on-coming trains on the railways. “(The train horns) have been a nuisance for our past residential developments like 300 Hay and some local commercial establishments, especially those with outside seating,” Culliton writes in a proposal to his fellow council […]
