aka Montreal NIMBYs larped as environmentalists to cancel a train blobcat, eyeroll

  • hennrix@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Cars are equally loud and even more pollution, we should never have to endure more than 60db. https://www.berlin.de/umweltatlas/en/traffic-noise/noise-pollution/1993/map-description/ If we build more elevated trains, the needs for Cars is reduced and we could move the train to the ground where right now a lot of Streets/Stroads are. And those trains/trams are way quiter than cars https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003682X21003285

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      1 year ago

      Current numbers vs a study from 1993.

      I would also ask you to point out where I said that cars were any better… Although let’s be clear, cars produce the same level of noise at speeds/RPM that are of no concern in urban areas, which is not the case for the REM as it produces that noise in urban areas.

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        1 year ago

        Doesn’t the REM follow the 30, over the Champlain, then shunt over to the train tracks that are parallel to the Bonaventure?

        Those are already very noisy areas, no?

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          1 year ago

          And the REM is still noisier than what people were already used to.

          People are complaining in Griffintown, Pointe-Saint-Charles ans l’Île-des-sœurs.