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San Mateo Residents Fed Up With Rail Crossing Noise Pollution

Residents in one San Mateo neighborhood are sick and tired of hearing train horns at the crossing on Bellevue Avenue.

(CBS Bay Area)

August 16, 2024

Residents in one San Mateo neighborhood are sick and tired of hearing train horns at the crossing on Bellevue Avenue.

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For Peter Martin, a longtime San Mateo resident, train noise is more than a nuisance. It's a quality-of-life issue - and he's ready for a solution.

"On a scale of 1-10, with 1 not being offensive at all and 10 being just really difficult, that was about a 4," he said, after a train passed by.

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