REM offers sound-cancelling headphones
The REM consortium has offered noise-cancelling headphones to some TMR residents whose back yards abut the tracks. They are not thrilled.
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Blork 12:49 on 2019-09-14 Permalink
That is so ridiculous it’s actually comical. So every five minutes you’re supposed to put on your noise-cancelling headphones for 30 seconds while the train passes. Alternatively, wear them all the time! I can imagine a SNL or “Like Moi” skit about this. Family of 4 all wearing their headphones at the dinner table. Conversation is something like this:
Mom: mmffmm mfmfmmfmm mf
Dad: WHAT???
Mom: mmfmf mmfmm fmfmfmffm!
Kid 1: WHAT???
Kid 2: WHAT???
Dad: mmfmf mmfmm fmfm fmffm!
Mom: WHAT???
Faiz Imam 14:38 on 2019-09-14 Permalink
“there are already a lot of noise-mitigation measures in place, such as a sound barrier wall along part of the tracks.”
I’d be nice if they added more detail on exactly what “part” will have walls, because that’s the real solution.
But also, its still an open question as to if this really will be any more or less of a problem than the current trains that have run though these people’s back yards for over 100 years.
steph 18:27 on 2019-09-14 Permalink
When you buy a house next to train tracks, you can’t complain about train noise. Isn’t the noise an issue only for the upcoming construction?
Dhomas 21:08 on 2019-09-14 Permalink
When they bought the houses, the trains ran a couple of times a day. The REM will run several times per hour. The REM may be quieter, though. But the situation will change for these people in a way they never asked for and could never anticipate. This is not like people moving in next to Fairmount and then complaining about smoke or moving upstairs from a music venue and complaining about noise.