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Originally Posted by Woodsy
The train scenario really doesn't work, as the railroad was there long before you or Wendy were. The railroad has a right to run trains, who by their nature are noisy. Thats like complaining about airplane noise when you move next to an airport....
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You seemed to have missed that I was not talking about normal train traffic. Of course people who move near train tracks have to accept the normal noise that trains make and people who go to the lake have to accept the normal noise of boats, jetskis and other sounds of people having fun. My hypothetical was about a new train that suddenly raised the noise level X5. I was trying to make the point that some boat (or train) noise is
excessive and unacceptable.
The same applies to airports. If you were used to the normal sounds of airplanes and suddenly one day new planes started creating much louder noise late at night you would be justified to complain. Many airports place limits on
excessive noise and either don't allow certain aircraft in or place strict noise abatement requirements on them. This is because they
cross the line of what is reasonable or tolerable by the airport's neighbors. Airports don't just tell their neighbors "just move" when new noise concerns arise, they try to be understanding and mitigate the problem as much as possible.
Recently in Boston many people living along the Comm. Ave streetcar line complained that the streetcars were now making an unacceptable amount of noise. I'm sure that you would have told them "too bad, move somewhere else". Fortunately the city acted more reasonably and tried to identify the cause (new kinds of wheels) and fix the problem.
It's too bad that you can't acknowledge that some noise crosses the line instead of answering every concern with "just move". You really want us to move so you can do whatever you want unchallenged. I'm not leaving.