As promised here’s the rundown. Short Version: Nothing is changing. Trains will stay. They will continue to be noisy. Maple will still be built as planned. Council would like to do something about the train noise and vibration, but they have no authority over CN. Long Version: As I mentioned earlier I thought the meeting …
Category Archives: Subdivision
Are Two Exits Enough?
Right now and as far into the foreseeable future as I can tell from the subdivision plans Tamarack only has two exits out of the subdivision. When Maple is built, it too will only have two exits, sharing them with Tamarack. Today illustrated a big problem with it. The areas around both exits are still …
The 12:14am train last night — you suck!
Worst train I’ve ever felt came through last night. The shaking was crazy — if I’d been on the edge of the bed I’d probably have fallen off! Of course it did wake the kids, which is always fun in the middle of the night. Don’t know if the driver was just going too fast, …
Busy trains here in Tamarack today
Busier than normal day so far, at least six ‘shaker’ trains so far today, not counting the ones from last night.
City of Edmonton Meeting Minutes – Maple Subdivision
A couple weeks ago (as I noted on this blog) the City of Edmonton met to discuss building another subdivision (Maple) beside the CN Rail tracks (across from Tamarack). During that meeting no serious discussion of the negative impact occurred and the motion passed all three readings in about fifteen minutes. I contacted several councilors, …
Wikipedia question
There’s a Tamarack article over at wikipedia and unfortunately someone keeps on removing the reference to the CN Train that I added. Basically the following line gets removed usually a few days after I add: CN Rail operates a train line through the subdivision. There are no plans to discontinue the CN Rail line. Does …
Disapointed with Edmonton City Council
This is the e-mail I just sent to my ward councilor Amarjeet Sohi. I think it summarizes well my disappointment over Edmonton City Council deciding to go ahead with building the Maple subdivision, which will be another noise and vibration-plagued subdivision along a busy CN Rail line. There was no discussion of noise and vibration …
Teach me, it will!
So yesterday I was thinking that I hadn’t heard any trains for a few days, hadn’t felt the house shake either. And of course I didn’t knock on wood or anything. Last night was brutal, the train that woke me sometime around 4:00 am was a screeching, noisy beast. And today there’s been three memorable …
Update (and Powerlines!) – November 2009
Just some quick info: No news from Summerhill about the vibration survey No reply from CN Rail about some of the track changes people have mentioned might be coming (see previous posts) Train seemed super busy the last few weeks, noticed a lot more shaking after a considerable period of ‘quiet’. Trains seemed to …
Thanks Dundee
After we moved into our house (a corner lot) we contacted Dundee in regards to whether they were going to be building a fence on our lot (many corner lots in subdivisions get fences supplied by the developer). At the time they said no and so we built our own. This summer we noticed that …