The Tulsa Forum by TulsaNow

Has anyone else noticed that the downtown trains have started sounding their blasts again?  Now, however, it's short steady blasts.  It's actually more annoying than before they installed the gates, which were supposed to silence the trains downtown. 

Yeah, every 20 minutes or so.  When we spent the night at the AOB this past weekend, they were relentless.

Must be due to the, uh, resident pedestrians wandering around the area.

You mean the urban outdoors-men?

I think inteller refers to them as homeless scum.  I see he gave AOB a nice review.  I've never seen anyone who thrives on being a miserable dick as much as he does.

yeah, for a while there from reading one of his posts on BBR I thought he was going to go beat someone up at the Cox Cable office...

I noticed the same thing but also noticed that there's work occurring on the tracks and I saw a few of the trains run by and sound the whistle right about the time they were upon a work crew.

flame bait much?  you are pathetic.

Awesome.  He even replied via his 'mobile device'.

If I remember correctly, there was one line that still was going to blow it's whistle. Also, if construction has effected one or more of the gates, that will make them whistle too.

They should be blowing "The Meat Whistle".....Might make everybody happier.....

BB strikes again.

I hadn't even noticed, which is why I think the whole expense was a giant waste.

The train whistles, or lack thereof, don't even make a dent in downtown noise. What about the constant sirens? We better spend millions to silence those. Then we'll have to crack down on drunks and their screaming. Better come up with a special TPD taskforce.

If you want quiet, move to the suburbs.

I can't believe you don't think that inteller is perfectly reasonable. I also can't believe you called that site BBR.

Personally, I like trains. The whistles don't add much to the deafening roar anyway.

Road noise from big trucks carries well, especially in the winter.

The point of stopping the whistles was for the BOK center.  When your several blocks from the tracks, yeah, it's just part of the background noise, but when your right next to them, like the BOK center is, it can be pretty bad.  I've about jumped out of my skin a few times because of it.  And, of course, there is nothing like stopping a conversation until the train is some ways down the track so that you can be heard.

It was also for new businesses like hotels. No-one wants to pay $200 a night to be woken up at 3am.

There is that as well, which I feel is connected to the BOK center.  No one really cared about the hotels downtown until it came along, IMO.

BBR is shorter than dslreports.  I'm lazy.  Sue me.

Downtown has been a quiet zone for nearly a decade now - today the trains are blowing their horn again.  It seems like a half dozen horn blasts spaced out most times they cross a surface street, like they used to do.  So horn horn, horn horn, horn horn hooooooorn.  Then a minutes or two to get to the next street... repeat a few times an hour.  Not the end of the world, but if it's mildly annoying to me I have to assume there are those more affected...

I'm thinking this isn't a permanent thing, but anyone know why?   (again, not really a complaint at this point, just curious why the sudden change?)

Article on the quiet zone from back in the day:
http://www.newson6.com/story/12002152/downtown-tulsa-railroad-quiet-zone

I am paying them to do that. Doesn't bother me any because I am not nearby.  But I thought it would be a fun practical joke to play on you now that your office is near the tracks.  :P

You're not going to think it's so funny when I start paying the Jimmy John's guys to blow those "honka honka" bike horns as they come and go.  ;D