There are communities in the United States and Canada that have laws to decrease unnecessary noise.

The CSX train that travels along Ga. Highway 74 honks unnecessarily during the night, causing disruption in several peoples’ sleep.

This type of noise is noise pollution – “any sound that is unwanted and preventable.” It is preventable if there was a law that states, “No honking from 10 p.m. — 6 a.m.”

I personally gathered information as well as a petition from our neighborhood years ago to stop the train honking just south of this intersection. And it worked. However, since the holding rails were added in the spring of 2008, the trains began to honk once again — loudly and some drivers hold it way too long.

A train that honks several times per night every night during the week leads to stress – and we all know that there is already too much stress in everybody’s daily lives.

Do we have local ordinances to stop noise between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.? Is there zoning that determines and clarifies what noise pollution is?

The train traveling north of Hwy. 54 through the rest of Peachtree City is residential, not industrial.

I urge the city council to stop this noise; it disrupts children sleeping as well as adults who desperately need a full night’s rest.

Here’s my daughter’s rendition of a childhood clapping game:

I don’t wanna listen to the trains no more, more, more!

It is honking every night at my door, door, door.

Please make it drive by fast

and make it quickly pass.

I don’t wanna listen to the trains no more, more, more!

Thank you for keeping our community peaceful and free from noise pollution.