Some residents are fed up and city council has agreed to move forward with a bid to curb irritating train whistles near residential areas – most notably in the South Walkerville area.

If a train is travelling less than 70 km/h, the whistle is sounded "20 seconds before entering the crossing and continuing to sound whistle signal until crossing is fully occupied." ...

OTTAWA—The crew of a Via Rail train that collided with an Ottawa transit bus did not sound their whistle as they approached the level crossing because of a municipal ban on whistles.

To signal the all-clear, the platform staff blow a whistle and the train starts rolling. This is supposed to repeat before every train leaves every station whenever the Confederation Line is ...

The city can appeal to the federal government to silence the loud whistles, but first has to complete a $50,000 study. “They will evaluate the safety and all the different aspects of it,” Coun.

The whistle is meant to warn oncoming traffic of the train's approach as it crosses the intersection. "I'm pretty excited to hear that," said Ushkowski on Thursday.

Whenever a train passes, it emits three whistle signals - this adds up to up to 150 signals per day, even at night.

Newton residents are hearing longer, more frequent whistles as engineers alert homeless people near the tracks that a train is approaching. By Jennifer Saltman Published Aug 23, 2016 2 minute read ...

Northside residents possibly getting train whistle exemptions? I live next to the LRT and didn’t know it would be built there when I bought my house: I’d like noise exemptions, too, please ...

The committee heard from members of the Cumberland Oxford neighbourhood in the city's north end that train whistles -- or "industrial air horns" as some called them -- are impacting the quality of ...

Bertha Laboucan says she developed a sleeping disorder after moving to the Carlton area, where two to three trains blare their whistles each night.The whistles are meant to warn oncoming traffic of ...