09-02-2016, 07:12 AM
(09-02-2016, 06:23 AM)Canard Wrote: Oops... This must be related to the crossing work I posted photos of last weekend. [i](See post 5/6.)[/b]
http://www.570news.com/2016/09/02/waterl...ay-signal/
When we lived at the Kaufman Lofts, our unit faced Victoria and sometimes the Waterloo St. Crossing would get triggered and run endlessly. For days. It was awful. I can sympathize totally.
Waterloo St. crossing? I can't think of a train crossing in that area.
This type of thing happens not infrequently at railway crossings. There's one 50 meters from my house that gets stuck on probably once a year. It just goes indefinitely. It creates a traffic issue, it doesn't have arms, so cars can (and legally can) cross after treating it like a stop sign, but many drivers don't know this and wait a while before going. And I have to call the railway and get them to come fix it. I'm not sure if the family could have done so here, certainly the railway is not a prompt responder, and there's also the issue of figuring out what number to call.
The noise is a bit annoying, but I really can't hear it from my house with the front windows closed.
As an aside, I really hate it when people describe themselves as "taxpayers". First, "citizen" or "resident" or "person" conveys exactly the same entitlements. And, while I don't know that, and don't want to ascribe this position to this particular person, many people do use the term "taxpayer" to imply they're more entitled to some right/voice in government/whatever, than those who "don't" pay taxes, like students, renters, whatever.
As another aside, you want an annoying noise, the accessibility features of the pedestrian signal on Glasgow is on continuously, I can't believe people who live there haven't complained.