Quick note from the Port of Seattle: Weekend pile-driving work is planned at West Seattle’s Terminal 5 the next two weekends, December 21-22 and 28-29. “The weekend pile driving is required to maintain the construction schedule,” explains port spokesperson Peter McGraw. The first phase of the modernization project started last summer; pile-driving is limited to a certain window for in-water work.
Inexcusable and unacceptable encroachments on weekend quiet time that bookend a major holiday. Several months prior and on the horizon to make up for for scheduling losses. Yet another breach of the Port’s promise to do right by WSEA and the taxpayers it is fleecing. The accountability and fiscal justification for this project remain elusive.
Awesome! And I’m not being sarcastic. Thanks for the heads up. I love me some diesel hammer action. I will definetly be heading down there to bath in the soothing drone. I hope it’s Pacific Pile and Marine, they are good peeps.
The train horns have been getting so much worse. Still going at 5:30 this morning. We understand the safety requirements of this, however sometimes it seems they go at all hours of the night, and somehow seem to have become louder. Sure there is nothing that can be done to tone this down.We are hoping that the Terminal 5 will not make this even worse. We are in the Admiral District.
We were doing some further research and found that some areas have applied to the government to make “Quiet Zones.” One state (Illinois) in particular has been putting in “Quiet Zones”. The government updates the sensory equipment and puts in new safety equipment to be sure everyone is safe when they make an area a “Quiet Zone.” We are wondering if, we as a community, could ask our government to make “Quiet Zones” especially around our residential areas.
Quiet Zone installation has already been agreed to and should be in place in 2021, if I recall correctly.
This work was here prior to home purchasing and the whatever. It was a factor when people bought where they did. To now ask any given industry to readjust because you’ve decided it is an inconvenience is not realistic. The trains, once coming to pier 5, come in slow and quiet. It’s the other trains you’re hearing. Trains that produce jobs, that transport all that stuff in your life. Same with the ships. They produce thousands of jobs down the line annndddd…. they carry that stuff that our lives are full of.
The ‘work was here first’ argument is misplaced and disingenuous at best. The land was used by others for non-industrial purposes long before the Port took occupancy. Industrial and residential uses of the land can coexist, are not mutually exclusive, and are fostered by creating quiet zones, enforcing equipment and alarm parameters, keeping within work schedules, shutting down locomotive engines in lieu of extended idling, and putting ships on shore power.
“. The land was used by others for non-industrial purposes long before the Port took occupancy.” If ‘AUDITOR’ is referring to Native Americans, his argument is the one being “misplaced and disingenuous at best.”The area in question has been industrial for virtually everyone still alive.
We would gladly have all that work in Aberdeen and leave you scum bags floundering with all your homeless and drug addicts. Those of you who complain about momentary discomfort in the name of progress have no clue what your taking for granted. We the workers of your state commute 3 hours in both directions too serve your industrial needs with no accommodation. I wish we could take the entire duwamish and port of Seattle and re build it in grays harbor we wouldn’t complain.we know what its like too have nothing.
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