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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by M.W. Hemphill</i> <br /><br />Anyone who believes that railways should have carte blanche to do whatever they want in regards to noise in a built-up area, or that residents have carte blanche to demand perfect silence, is living in the wrong country. Or, they should tear up the Constitution and write a new one for a totalitarian state. The law recognizes that reasonable people often have conflicting goals, and attempts to adjudicate them. Politics is the method for writing the laws. Politics is where people go when conflicting goals cannot be reconciled by ordinary means; that is, there isn't an obvious winning solution for all parties in the situation at hand. Office politics, which I know a lot about, is the everyday method used to reconcile different departments with different goals. It's no fun, it's not satisfying, and until we're all assimilated into the Borg, it's utterly inevitable. <br /> <br />Grade crossing noise is a conflict between the property rights of two parties that can't be resolved by telling one side to shut up. Coming into this issue as a blind partisan of railroads will be unproductive and foolish; it will convince no one on the opposite side of our righteousness, but it will demonstrate to them the need to match our blind partisanship, and of the general untrustworthiness of the railroad. As long as we are spouting rhetoric about the stupid or greedy or selfish public, we're enriching all the lawyers, politicians, flacks, and media companies that feed off conflict. And we're polarizing positions and doing real harm to railroads, too. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />What do you propose should be done to resolve these quiet zone problems?
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