Dear Editor:
I did have zero compassion for the "complainers" in the waterfront condos about the train horns.
Not anymore - for I live at London and 20th and have no need to be warned of train movements at 3 a.m.
Where, possibly, can the need be to constantly use a horn that is audible, easily one-half-mile away, when you are travelling at horse-and-buggy speed.
These horns were designed for 30 to 60 m.p.h. speeds with 50 to 100 cars behind and a stopping distance of three miles. Ain't happening when you are shunting - and the amount of people you are safeguarding is none. They are all in bed.
Smarten up. Use the brains God gave you and tap your horn, or yell.
Geoff Porteous, New Westminster
