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Looks like a win for the good guys:

Train operator ordered to reduce noise from horns
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff

A woman in Heredia has won a ruling from the constitutional court that orders the Instituto Costarricense de Ferrocarriles to reduce the noise of its train horns. The ruling said that the noise should be reduced without jeopardizing vehicle traffic. The horns have been very noticeable on the new Heredia-San José route because the institute has not installed crossing gates and other devices to protect vehicles.

The noise had been so loud that the owner of the Hotel Amistad has employed two crossing guards near the Barrio Otoya facility to keep train noise down. The two men stop morning traffic when a train approaches to avoid the need for the train to announce its presence and wake hotel guests.

The woman who filed the case with the Sala IV lives in Santa Rosa de Santo Domingo de Heredia. She claimed she was having health problems due to the noise. She said she was having headaches and hearing problems. The train service begins at 5 a.m. weekdays.

The court ruled that the institute has to reduce the noise to reasonable levels and to do so without putting vehicles at risk. For a time, the new train service was wrinkling car fenders and doors at a rate of more than one a week. The Poder Judicial, in an interpretation of the ruling, suggested that the institute might have to install crossing gates, as did the woman.

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so the conclusion was to install crossing gates. wonder how long the powers that be will need to ponder that.

HA...it takes over a year to get a RR crossing in the US...Has to take 3+ years there.....

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