People in Orange should not be hearing train horns beginning Tuesday morning as the city’s railroad quiet zone started at 9 a.m.
The effort to get a quiet zone started in January 2011, and Public Works Director Jim Wolf said it cost about $450,000 to implement.
Train engineers have sounded horns at every street crossing across the city. Now, the horns will not blow at Main Avenue on the south northward to Cordrey.
The city has closed crossings at Elm, Pine Cypress, Orange and John. The streets open to vehicular traffic are Main, Green, Cherry, Park, Burton, Link and Cordrey avenues.
As part of the quiet zone plans, the city installed reflecting delineator poles along the streets with crossings. Wayside horns were installed at Green Avenue.
Residents in the Old Orange Historic District petitioned the city to implement the quiet zone. The city in 2008 had plans to close the five crossings in The Old Orange Historic District so Union Pacific Railroad Company would agree to roadway crossings for the extension of the Interstate 10 access roads that are now under construction.
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