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Originally Posted by DTcrawler
It’s brutal. When I was a student at Carleton you could hear it from half way across campus, couldn’t imagine what it’d be like living right next to it. Hopefully as more TOD is built, enough complaints pile up that they scrap it. It’s so unnecessary anyways - just a guess but I assume it was a requirement when the original O-Train used to share the ROW with freight trains?
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It's required because Line 2, even after the upgrades, is still a federally regulated railway, and that bell is required by law. OC Transpo can't scrap it. It still interconnects with other rail lines at Walkley, even though it doesn't have the junction with Via anymore