Keep the East Nashville Train Horns

Train horns and lights and crossbars and all things SAFETY are so important! I lost my brother and close friend to a train accident due to the lack of these safety mechanisms in place at a train track and I would hate to see more lives lost due to negligence. For the sake of people and animals and lives saved PLEASE DO NOT remove the train horns and safety in east Nashville! I urge you as a family member whose life was irreparably impacted by the death of loved ones due to lack of train horns and train safety alerts around train tracks, PLEASE BE MORE RESPONSIBLE AND PUT SAFETY FIRST! Keep the train horns and all train awareness safety alerts around all train tracks. You will be saving lives.

If peoplewants to get rid of them and start a debacle, then why did they move to the area in the first place. Its almost like the ones that are complaing about the loudness of downtown, you know how it is so why purchase a house condo or any other place to live around these areas.....

So let me get this straight: you've moved into a neighborhood with train tracks, and proceed to complain about the train horns. You remind me of the folks that moved next door to my in-laws' farm, and commenced to complain about the roosters crowing early in the morning and the tractors growling in the field late in the night during harvest time--which is the work that community has been doing for hundreds of years. My family has been in East Nashville no telling how long-- at least since my great-grandfather built a house there in the 1870s (which still stands, by the way). I had family that worked for the Tennessee Central and N.C. & St. L. The horns are there for safety. I think I've heard these horns every night my head hit the pillow in this city except for 9/11/01. I don't mind the deep rumble of the diesel electric motors that make my window panes buzz, either. The really annoying noise in the neighborhood is this new high-pitched WHINE.

love my train horns please dont take them away. thx

Dear new Nashville residents. Get over yourselves and deal with it. You bought property by a train track. They makes noise. Live with your decision. It's not the rest of Davidson County's job to pay for your stupid decision. PS - You're all a bunch of whiny, entitled drains on society.

The train horns were there when they bought their home, should have gave more thought about the home purchase

Train horns saves lives!

Trains run on tracks. Train tracks are two large steel rails, separated by about 3 or 4 feet of large wood beams. If you ever see one of these "tracks", you can know that in the future, there might be a train there, and that train may annoy you. In other news, fire is hot.

The horns are for safety, wear earplugs.

Bless their transplanted hipster hearts.

Let them move back to Austin or Illinois if they want to make East Nashville like the place they came from. Horns are a safety feature.

Little toot-tootin' saves lives. Keep 'em.

I live in Inglewood, the train horns need to be kept. Nostalgia aside, the trains make a noise for a reason- to alert cars and pedestrians that they are coming.

i have lived in East Nashville for 46 yrs before moving to West Tennessee. The trains whistle has not bothered anybody that i known of it the whole time i lived there. Now the so called "Yuppies" that has moved in to East Nashville and do nothing but complain. The train was there before they moved in, and i knew a lot of people that could not go to sleep until they heard the whistle of the train. So why must we change things that's going to cost $1.5 million dollars. Why can't they put that money toward something else. I know there are sidewalks that need to be fixed, new street sign need to be put up etc, etc. etc. So why don't y'all "Yuppies" put they money toward something other than the train whistle, it was there before you moved to that neighborhood and it will be there long after you move out. SO QUIT BITCHING ABOUT SMALL THINGS AND PUT THE MONEY TOWARD SCHOOLS WHERE IT WILL DO SOME GOOD BECAUSE WHAT I SEE FROM MOST OF THE SCHOOLS AND WHAT Y'ALL ARE TEACHING IS DOING NOTHING BUT MAKING THE NEXT GENERATION A BUNCH OF CRY BABIES.

Been living 2 blocks from railroad cross. Doesn't bother me for 40 years now. Keeping the train can save a life or lives if the equipment doesn't work....lights and guards.

I grew up on Short St where the abandoned bowling alley now stands. From there we re-located to Gillock St, the last house before the train tracks. I personally find the train horns soothing and peaceful. I would be extremely disappointed if they were silenced.

I would rather direct money to more serious issues surrounding the new growth of Nashville than this.

Keep the horns! Safe for humans and animals.

I live adjacent to the Bronte/McGavock crossing and adore falling asleep to the sound of the trains that pass in the night. What an absurd notion - to silence the trains and jeopardize my neighbors and animals that might be crossing the track at night? I'm bothered by neighbors hammering on my fence at 8am Sunday morning or by people that drive 50 miles an hour down McGavock.

Me and my family love the train horns! Safety is the main concern but it's also so nostalgic to hear a horn in the distance! Also it helps keep track of time! Maybe spend our tax dollars on fixing the potholes in the roads. The roads or terrible here!!