The sound of trains keeping you up at night? Well, you’re not alone, and you may just be one of the St. Lucie County residents benefiting from the implementation of quiet zones at railroad crossings. County Communications Director Eric Gill has more.
“So what that means is now trains that go through those aren’t required to blow their horns. That doesn’t mean that they still can’t blow their horn if, say, there is an animal on the track. They can still pull their horns, but they’re not required to now that they are quiet zones,” he said.
The quiet zones, which were implemented at Midway Road, Walton Road, and Riverview Drive, were carefully selected based on different criteria…