[b][/b]Junebug Wrote:
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> [www.marinij.com]
> afael-to-take-lead-on-smart-quiet-zone-through-mar
> in
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> The citizens of San Rafael and Novato apparently
> hate the train horns and are demanding action by
> their city governments in establishing a quiet
> zone in their respective hamlets.
>
> One irony is that for all the trouble Novato won't
> have to go to to get a quiet zone built in their
> city, thanks to San Rafael taking the lead, they
> are still building themselves a downtown station
> which, if they succeed in shuttering the San Marin
> Station which was on outskits of downtown and not
> near any houses and shift the SMART service to the
> downtown station, which is what the downtown
> landowners and chamber of commerce types seem bent
> on achieving, at great cost to the town though not
> themselves in any way, then the train will still
> be blowing every time it leaves the station. And
> for all we know, it probably has to blow when it
> arrives at the station. So if Novato is right and
> everyone lives next to the downtown station bla
> bla bla, the horn will still be there every time a
> train comes through.
>
> How wise an idea is this?. In San Rafael the track
> follows curves almost the entire route through
> town. The train will be surprising people for
> sure. It is dangerous, I feel.

@#$%& em' ....."Kill em' all and let God sort it out." Natural selection would be good for the area. Thin out the herd of Nimby's and Extreme leftists would't be a bad thing.

On second thought, Does Isreal have as many Helpless Whiners and sheeple as California?