RTD will soon be bringing commuter rail to the Northwest Corridor (Denver to Boulder to Longmont). These new trains will run along the existing freight rail lines already in place. We are group of citizens who live in Boulder, Lafayette, and in other areas along the Northwest Corridor dedicated to promoting responsible transit, but also to keeping the corridor free from excessive train noise, specifically from train horns, near our open space trails, homes, and businesses.
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If the RTD's safety improvements do not make a crossing eligible for quiet zone status, local jurisdictions will be responsible for applying for and funding quiet zones. Please contact your city council and tell them you are in favor of quiet zones! 
"A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway freight train barrels through the intersection of Highway 2 and 72nd Avenue in Commerce City. The ground shakes, the speeding train creates blasts of wind, but the only sound is the clacking of the train wheels and the dinging of the gates going down. Welcome to Commerce City’s quiet zone, a railroad crossing where trains are prohibited from blowing their horns, except in emergencies"
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"The Regional Transportation District is predicting that by the time the Northwest Rail-- with train service between Longmont and Denver...58 diesel-powered trains will race through Louisville every day. That's a train every 30 minutes during peak hours."
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"It's a given that Broomfield residents are being affected by freight train horns today," she [Broomfield Transportation Manager Debra Baskett] said. "At the same time, we have to anticipate future RTD improvements and how much should RTD pay and how much should Broomfield pay as they travel these parallel paths."
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"....I believe that building a redundant national transportation system is very important – air plus rail. What would be given up, however, if we built only BRT and not rail right now? Are there opportunities that would be lost that cannot be recovered if we were to do that – opt for BRT only and not the rail component right now?"
-- Macon Cowles, Boulder City Council
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"....We will be running much more frequent services," he said. "In instances in which it's the horn noise itself that's the problem, we will be making an existing situation worse,"
--Chris Quinn, RTD Project Manager, Daily Camera Article, 1/06/2008
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"...[Boulder] City Councilwoman Angelique Espinoza asked her colleagues — most of whom live west of 28th Street — to raise their hands if they can hear train horns. Hands went up around the dais. Espinoza said the sound of a train horn occasionally wafting in is "quaint." But, she said, that's just because it's not a sound people in Boulder hear all the time. 'If there were going to be 150 of them a day, they would not be quaint anymore,' she said."
-- Daily Camera Article, 12/12/2007
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