A social media group has showed its support for trains that sound their horns throughout East Nashville neighborhoods.
NewsChannel 5 recently profiled the efforts of neighbors trying to do the opposite - a group called "Stop the Train Horns."
The group was trying to help bring Quiet Zones to train crossings in East Nashville, but it has gained some opposition.
Alexa Sullivant has startedthe Facebook group “Keep The Train Horns.”
Sullivant said she's worried that railroad crossing quiet zones -- which would keep conductors from being required to sound their train horns when approaching crossings -- will create more accidents between trains and people.
She said the money used to add more safety features to quiet zone crossings could be better used elsewhere, and she says train horns are simply a part of living in East Nashville.
“It’s hard for someone like me who grew up here, and my parents grew up here, to see all this change happening, this is a smaller part of a bigger fight,” Sullivant said.
Any changes to railroad crossings in East Nashville would likely be several months away, if not longer.
Metro Council would have to be involved, as well as CSX and the Federal Railroad Administration.
