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From: Nancy Hosay >
Date: Tue, May 9, 2023 at 4:47 PM
Subject: Quiet Zones - YES!
To: Menlo Park City Council >
Cc: JoAnne goldberg >, Sue Connelly >, LinfieldOaksGoogleGroup >
Dear Councilmembers,
Although the cost is substantial, the net result of Quiet Zones will benefit Menlo Park residents for the foreseeable future, joining Palo Alto with their efforts. Noise pollution is a sad and unwanted feature of our increasingly urbanized life, and the current train horn blasts add enormously to that unpleasant cacophony at almost all hours of the day and night . Adding more trains with the planned electrification of the system increases that unwanted noise to even more unbearable levels. Plus the 4 train crossings in Menlo Park multiply the number of audible horns that are blasted each and every time there is a train. I would guess that virtually everyone in Menlo Park uses at least one of the east-west train crossings -- whether for access to schools, work, access to the east bay, etc. to the Baylands and 101.
The number of horns currently sounding daily is astounding and appalling :
77 trains per day pass thru Menlo Park ( NB & SB per caltrain schedule)
x 4 train crossings in Menlo Park
x 6 horns / crossing according to federal guidelines
Grand Total 1848 train horns per day
By any measure this is an unacceptable blight on our city. Please vote to create quiet zones to fix this!
Best,
Nancy Hosay
325 Linfield Pl.
Menlo Park
