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Tomball hears multimodal consultant: quiet zones possible but costly, multi-year
Summary
At a special meeting Oct. 6, the Tomball City Council heard from Frank Quinavides, a multimodal engineer with the Ardura Group, about the federal process for establishing railroad quiet zones and the tradeoffs between community noise reduction and public safety.
At a special meeting Oct. 6, the Tomball City Council heard from Frank Quinavides, a multimodal engineer with the Ardura Group, about the federal process for establishing railroad quiet zones and the tradeoffs between community noise reduction and public safety.
Quinavides told the council that quiet zones are established under a Federal Railroad Administration regulatory process (49 CFR part 222) and that the process requires a formal diagnostic review with stakeholders, design and construction of supplemental safety measures, and a notice-of-establishment filing. "What are quiet zones? So so quiet zones are they're designated sections of of a rail line where train horns are not routinely sounded," Quinavides said.
Quinavides and city staff described six general steps: identify…
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