Noise makes you sick.
There is no doubt about this finding among serious medical professionals.
Even if the dose is always decisive and although noise is a highly subjective annoyance.
Noise is undesirable sound and it is actually a question of personal point of view at times.
On the other hand, residents of sports fields and playgrounds regularly argue in court whether children's noise is a long way off.
Even cow bells and church bells occupy the judges as sources of noise.
But compared to the traffic noise, these are petitessen.
Railway noise played a subordinate role for a long time.
The headlines in the fight against unacceptable noise determined the residents of motorways and the citizens in the settlement areas under the departure and arrival routes and in the direct vicinity of the airport. For a good 20 years, however, the noise pollution along existing rail connections has no longer been ignored. Even if the train as a means of transport can boast many pluses, especially in times of climate change. “Quiet Rhine” was the name of the federal program which, among other things, aimed to convert to “whisper brakes”.
It is therefore by no means quiet on the Rhine, and the freight wagons roll through the municipalities louder than they actually should. The hope for an alternative route outside the Rhine Valley is a false hope. There are no deserted zones in Germany in which new routes for the transport of goods have remained without protests. A tunnel system sounds too good to be affordable or enforceable in the foreseeable future. Anyone who knows the German planning and approval periods knows that an alternative route for this and the next generation is the inaccessible pigeon on the roof. The Rüdesheim railway tunnel was discussed for more than 100 years before this meaningful project was buried. The federal government and the railways have already invested considerable sums in noise protection in the Rhine Valley. That is far from being enough.More needs to be done to tackle the noise at the source. If that doesn't work, a speed limit or a nocturnal operating ban must be in place. Why should the residents of the airport be granted what the railroad tracks are denied?