9-13-13 nfdl village board votes to vacate road at rr crossing

The North Fond du Lac Village Board is taking a new approach hoping to speed up the process of getting the railroad to stop blowing the train whistles 24 hours a day at a village crossing.  The board voted four to one Wednesday evening to vacate Lakeshore Drive at the railroad crossing.  Village Administrator Chuck Hornung  says vacating a road is an easier, quicker process than closing the road.  Village residents have complained about non stop train whistles that started September first

when  the Federal Railroad Administration lifted a “quiet zone”  in the village.  Hornung says  since then the train horns have been sounding up to 150 times a day.  Now Hornung says the whistles could stop toward the end of next month.