Comments on: Decatur's Bermuda Triangle http://www.decaturmetro.com/2008/09/02/decaturs-bermuda-triangle/ Decatur Georgia News, Events, Atlanta News Fri, 19 Sep 2014 02:02:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: Tiffany Montblanc http://www.decaturmetro.com/2008/09/02/decaturs-bermuda-triangle/#comment-2510 Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:17:37 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-2510 No gate at Coventry, I live around the corner. Believe me, there’s a horn, or a whistle, or whatever they call it on a train.

]]> By: Steve http://www.decaturmetro.com/2008/09/02/decaturs-bermuda-triangle/#comment-2509 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:13:38 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-2509 The Coventry crossing has no gate, I believe. I hkven’t been by in a while, but that’s my memory. I don’t thing it has a double gate, which is what would be required to waive the horn requirement.

]]> By: Decatur Metro http://www.decaturmetro.com/2008/09/02/decaturs-bermuda-triangle/#comment-2508 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:14:20 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-2508 Part of the Transportation plan is to install special gates at the intersections along Howard/College so that CSX doesn’t have to blow its horn.

I guess the Coventry intersection already has the right kind of gate.

]]> By: Steve http://www.decaturmetro.com/2008/09/02/decaturs-bermuda-triangle/#comment-2507 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:57:34 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-2507 The railroads are required by the Federal Railroad Administration to sound warning horns at nearly every road crossing in the country, signaled or not. If you don’t hear the horns at Coventry, it’s because you’re not noticing them.

]]> By: Tarnation http://www.decaturmetro.com/2008/09/02/decaturs-bermuda-triangle/#comment-2506 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:25:37 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-2506 Garsh!

Has anyone thought how inconsiderate our safety whining is with regards to CSX? I mean, they are not to be questioned and have not a thought in the world to what the actual PEOPLE are concerend with whose lives abut their property.

Blaring horns at 4AM in the morning with not a car in sight….CAN DO! Yet the CSX passes across Coventry Road near Fernabnk fifty feet from homes and not a horn to be heard. Besides, if we complain too much they will put up a fence on BOTH sides of the tracks and then our children can no longer risk their lives TWICE daily crossing the RR to get to Renfroe while our police look the other way, despite repeated phone calls concerned about this ongoing “accident waiting to happen”.

This intersection, along with McDonough, is designed to best suit the needs of CSX and that is all that matters. If we Decaturites need to cross the tracks, we should just have to go to either underpass at Columbia or Rocky Ford.

CSX knows what’s best. Just ask them

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