The City of Palo Alto is exploring quiet zones along three roads that cross the Caltrain corridors in the south part of the ...

Sounding the horn is a loud ritual that train engineers are required to perform ... much cheaper than putting a four-quad gate system in and essentially does the same purpose,” Meyerhofer ...

Another option calls for installing quad gates at two of the three crossings ... “We’re getting 20 hours of train horn-blowing noise at 110 decibels 832 times a day, from 5 a.m. to 1 a.m ...