Dan Evans/News-Sentinel
All quiet on the western front in Galt?
An Amtrak train passes Galt Place on Monday, Dec. 5, 2011. Galt
officials are planning a "quiet zone" in the downtown area that
would prevent trains from sounding their whistles as they pass.
- Quiet zones in California
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There are currently 18 quiet zones established in California.
Among them:
- Elk Grove
- West Sacramento
- Fresno
- Richmond
- Placentia
— Source: Wilbur Smith Associates
Posted: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 12:00 am
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Updated: 10:40 am, Wed Jan 30, 2013.
All quiet on the western front in Galt?
By Jennifer Bonnett/News-Sentinel Staff Writer
Lodinews.com
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Officials in Galt are planning to create a quiet zone through
downtown where trains won't blow their horns.
To move forward, the City Council will be asked to approve
spending up to $150,000 tonight to make upgrades to the seven Union
Pacific railroad crossings in and around Galt.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011 12:00 am.
Updated: 10:40 am.
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Jason Behrmann,
Union Pacific Railroad,
Quiet Zone,
Downtown Galt,
Galt City Council,
Richard Prima,
Wally Sandelin,
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Frederick Goethel posted at 6:22 pm on Tue, Dec 6, 2011.
If they follow he staff report, which recommends that Spring St and Twin Cities be excluded, they are wasting money. In the Northeast area, the majority of noise people are complainig about originate from those two crossings. If they do not include them, the noise, and hence the complaints will continue. I live almost 2 miles (as the crow flies) from the Twin Cities crossing and I can hear them clearly in my bedroom at night (through a closed window. I don't mid trains and the horns, but many of the complainers live in the area I do.
Tom Malson posted at 11:01 am on Tue, Dec 6, 2011.
When I was on City Council & also on the League Transportation Committee, in 2005 I made a motion to study quite zones for Galt. Deciding vote against it at the time was Barbra Payne, who said that she felt that the train noise was “quaint”. Now Seven YEARS later . . . . . .