GO Transit has agreed to stop the use of loud horns in a Unionville neighborhood, less than three weeks after reviving the practice following a safety incident.
Some residents in the neighbourhood near a GO Train crossing at Eureka Street previously spent six years pushing for the horns to be silenced as trains passed through the area.However, due to an incident on Dec. 23 involving a street sweeper vehicle at the Eureka Street crossing near Unionville, Markham, Metrolinx decided to temporarily reinstate whistle blowing.
Markham Ward 3 councillor Reid McAlpine wrote in an email to CTV News last week that while all details of the incident were not yet clear, it seemed the issue was driver error. Metrolinx asked for improved signage, enhanced staff, and contractor training along with a transportation management plan from the developer before silencing the horns, he said.
Metrolinx previously called the incident “a near miss” and said they were undertaking a full-scale safety assessment with safety measures in place while that assessment was conducted.Sundarason said that as a result of the decision to reinstate whistle blowing, 34 to 40 horns were being heard at the crossing every day for the last weeks.
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