Re: [NSW] Noise from stabled CityRail trains

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Nathan Cox" <nathan1@ihug.com.au> wrote in message
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> Who really care's about the noise, the railway line has been there longer
> than the houses.My grandmother lives at the City end of Jannali station
> (right on the steepest part of Como bank), she has been there for 15
years,
> and has put up with the trains grinding past outside.She has got used to
it,
> do you see the resident complaining about the noise of trains.

It comes down basically to people who obtained their properties at reduced
values (because of the railway/flightpath/freeway/[insert other value
reducing thing here]) and who are now looking to try and increase that value
by reducing the effect of whatever it was that made their properties cheap.
The same thing happened with Mascot airport, which has been there since the
1920's. We also see this with weekend track maintenance shutdowns, when such
work could easily be carried out at night if it wasn't for the noise
complaints of those who moved in knowing the railway was there.

> Ok this noise comes and goes, but its the same thing.Why is it that people
> who live up on the Blue Mountains whinge all the time.

Not just the mountains. They had to put in noise barriers at Hornsby sheds
because of complaints.

> But I guess its all controled by politics anyway.

Never a truer word spoken.

Dave