Silent Railroad Crossings in the Works for Acworth

Acworth wants to be the first city in the southeast to boast all quiet railroad crossings.

City leaders are looking to make Acworth the first "silent" community by enacting Quiet Zones around the city's five railroad crossings—those at School Street, Lemon Street, Smith Street, Acworth Industrial Avenue and New McEver Road, reports the Marietta Daily Journal.

The conversion of each crossing to do so would cost $1.2 million and be funded with federal grant money and Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax dollars.

In a quiet zone, railroads have been directed to cease the routine sounding their horns when approaching public highway-rail grade crossings, according to the Federal Railroad Administration.

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