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Train chugs, bugs students
Students living near the train tracks often complain of the noisy horn the trains use as they pass through Chico and the downtown student neighborhoods.
The deafening squeal of the train's horn can be heard throughout Chico many times each day. It rolls through town car by car, street by street and in the wee hours of the night. When the train's horn isn't blaring, students can be heard cursing the train.
As much as the train bothers some students, others choose to live near the tracks.
Sophomore John Power dislikes the train because of the noise and thinks that there may be a solution.
"They should move the train outside of town," Power said. "I assume that they honk the horn for safety, but the light should be enough."
Freshman Charles Springer thinks the horn is needed at major intersections but not every 50 feet, he said.
Freshman Eric Georges said he thinks the train is a disturbance.
"I joined a group on Facebook denoting how bad it is," Georges said. "The fact that some of them have the horn on for five, six and seven seconds is really bad. They have to understand that the tracks are right in the middle of a residential area."
Freshman Harry Levy said the train is really close to his room and complained that it's loud.
"My window faces the train," Levy said. "It's terrible."
Junior Greg Given doesn't like the train when it makes him late, but he has never been disrupted by it in the middle of the night, he said.
"It's only bad when I get caught by it, and it's going, like, two miles an hour," Given said.
Freshman Lauren Balch said the train's horn helps with safety.
"You know it's coming because it goes 'choo-choo,'" Balch said. "That's how you know not to get hit."
Senior Jeff James, who used to live in Oakwood Apartments, said that while the train is obnoxious, it is no worse than living next to Highway 99.
"It would shake our whole place," James said. "It never bothered me though. I would sleep through it."
Freshman Alfred Edwards thinks the horn is the worst part of the train.
"The train is really annoying when you're on the phone," Edwards said. "You can't hear anything."
Sophomore Christina Gonzales, who lives on West Sacramento Avenue next to the tracks, is not a fan of the train.
"It's annoying, and it comes right when you're watching TV. The honker is very loud, and you have to turn the TV up really loud," Gonzales said. "When it comes, hang on, and put your seatbelts on."

Source: The Orion