Dinah, Don’t you Blow your Horn!

There has been unacceptably late, overzealous blowing of horns on trains arriving in Brunswick at night.

The horn is still going strong until about 3 a.m. Hearing distance has recently increased, now being heard in far reaching areas in Brunswick!

It’s not only the people living within feet of the Train Maintenance Facility getting woken up in the middle of the night and if it keeps up so that ALL of Brunswick is getting no sleep, maybe enough town energy and collective concern can be mustered to get some results, like Freeport an Portland have: No more blowing that train horn at ungodly hours there!

We have a noise ordinance all of us are legally required as residents of Brunswick to abide. There should be no exceptions!

If I started making enough noise from 11:30 p.m. until 3 a.m. to wake up many residents multiple times every night and refused to stop, I would get arrested! Excessive after hour noise is considered disturbing and negatively affecting the quality of life of those around you. Councilor Perrault, whose district the layover station sits in, cannot, one man alone, fix this problem now plaguing our town We need full council and town manager support lining up as a team to go to bat for us!

How many paying passengers are on the train arriving in Brunswick at 1:40 a.m.? What happened to the last trip to Brunswick ending at 11:30 p.m., which is the information I heard when the train information began to be debated? Why, if that train pulls into the maintenance station after a 1:40 a.m. drop at the station in Brunswick, (purpose of the facility I believe) why is there a train out of the “shed” between 2-3 a.m. blowing it’s horn every night?

C’mon Brunswick, take care of your people! Please!

Brunswick got the train, and crucial work needs to be done to find a way to have the train without it negatively impacting so many community members and diminishing our quality of life.

Jordan Cardone
Brunswick