Locomotive Bad Breath
Anyone know who we would contact to ask about the now almost daily idling trains filling our apartment with exhaust fumes for hours on end and making us sick?
We were hoping this would be the last apartment, and we just love the place, but we’re talking about moving because of the exhaust. It was one thing when once every few weeks a train with bad exhaust idled at length. Now it’s as if they’re using primarily trains with bad exhaust.
By comparison, you’ve all driven behind a diesel truck. Maybe you’d rather not be there, but hey, it’s sometimes, and it’s not that bad. But then you’ve also driven behind one of those diesel trucks; the ones you can’t understand still being on the road; the ones that make you have to drive 90 and pass before you stop breathing, or else slow way down and back off half a mile or more so it dissipates before it reaches you.
Those are rare. Now imagine if every other truck you encountered was suddenly one of the bad ones. You would be wondering what the hell was going on.
So it is with the trainyard and the idling stinkers. If we can get to winter, we can deal until spring, but there’s no way we can take another summer of this.
I’d guess you need to find out if the other tenats have the same issue and then chat with the landlord. I doubt the train people would or could halpe you. But there should be a way to make the house more smoke-proof.
Posted by caltechgirl on 08/09 at 05:19 PM
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