How could board oppose silence?

The Mundelein village board must be losing their minds. They voted not to go silent with train horns as other communities have done in the county.

The original assertion, when the automated horns were installed was, that they would be less noisy than the regular train horns. Baloney! Come, listen to a northbound freight train, grinding its way up an incline. The automated horns go off four, five, six times before they shut off. You call that less noise?

Apparently, the village has no idea what the noise does to property values. The third house north of us has been on the market forever. The complaint I hear is the highway traffic and trains are just too much to handle, and the blare from the horns doesn't help any.

Village leaders need a little more common sense and better judgment. Watch out next election.

Charley Wells

Mundelein