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Re:TransitMatters, a transit advocacy group in Boston by cure on Monday October 29, 2018 @04:48PM (#18331265)
> Make the damn thing run on time and nobody will care if it burns whale oil and exhausts powdered asbestos

I beg to differ; it really stinks when one of those old diesel commuter trains goes by. They are also very noisy (electric trains are basically silent at the slow, slow speed of the MBTA commuter rail). Ask anyone who lives near or passes by the tracks regularly what they think - there's tens of thousands of us.

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Re:TransitMatters, a transit advocacy group in Boston by thrower123 on Monday October 29, 2018 @04:51PM (#18331297)
You get used to it in an incredibly short period of time. I'm less than a hundred feet from the Amtrak line, and you just don't even notice them going by after a while. It's the 100+ long freights that aren't slowing down to stop at the station in town that shake the windows....
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