aka Montreal NIMBYs larped as environmentalists to cancel a train blobcat, eyeroll

  • @hennrix
    link
    English
    42 years ago

    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

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      1
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      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.

      • @Nouveau_Burnswick
        link
        English
        12 years ago

        Doesn’t the REM follow the 30, over the Champlain, then shunt over to the train tracks that are parallel to the Bonaventure?

        Those are already very noisy areas, no?

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          02 years ago

          And the REM is still noisier than what people were already used to.

          People are complaining in Griffintown, Pointe-Saint-Charles ans l’Île-des-sœurs.