Train horn noise that for more than two years has been the bane of thousands of people living in homes and doing business along the University of Colorado A-Line commuter rail corridor could go silent in as little as six weeks. That’s according to a timeline laid out by Regional Transportation District officials at a sometimes heated and contentious community meeting Thursday night in Park Hill, as neighbors insisted on a certain date for when the horns that blow 21 hours a day at the A-Line’s 11 crossings will end. “I just want to know when the horns are going to stop,” a frustrated man at the back of the room shouted out, interrupting two RTD officials who were in the middle of giving a presentation. While a specific date for the cessation of horn use was not identified at the meeting, final approvals now working their way through the Colorado Public Utilities Commission coupled with a 21-day decision period from federal railroad officials charged with establishing quiet zones at rail crossings likely means the first day of horn-free train travel along the airport line will come in the first week of August. “We believe we have done everything to qualify for quiet zones,” Henry Stopplecamp, assistant general manager of capital programs for RTD, said at the meeting. Joe Amon, Denver Post fileA crossing guard stops traffic as an RTD train travels along the A-Line in Aurora on March 17.
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