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Quiet zones in Albany: Better not

Written December 4th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Albany has been a railroad town since 1870. Some people don’t like the sound of that. Train horns at crossings bother them. But turning the entire city into a “quiet zone” might cost in the neighborhood of $14 million.


 
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