[music] Welcome to Agenda Edina, a program summarizing the actions taken at city hall that affect you most. I'm your host, Dorothia Marty. Edina's effort to bring peace and quiet back to the neighborhood is picking up steam. The city has hired a contractor to study how to make train crossing safer and eventually quieter. For years, trains along the CPKC line mostly rolled through Edina during the day. But recently, more trains have been running [music] overnight, and their horns have been waking up nearby residents. >> The city recognizes that the train horn sounding, particularly in the evening hours, is very disruptive to residents that live along the corridor. At the same time, we also recognize that the train horn sounds for a good reason, to be sure that we don't have any incidents of motorists or pedestrians or cyclists. um being struck by a train through a crossing. So, we're really trying to balance those two interests uh in studying safety improvements at these crossings. >> SRF Consulting will evaluate all seven street level crossings in Edina for potential safety improvements. The study will help the city figure out what safety upgrades are needed before it can ask the Federal Railroad Administration to allow trains to pass without sounding their horns. We first have to show that the risk of not having the train sound its horn at all of these atgrade crossings is mitigated. >> The city council set aside money from last year's budget surplus to pay for the work after a federal grant did not come through. SRF will complete the initial study for about $64,000. The study will take several months to complete. Quiet zones are still a ways off, but for neighbors losing sleep, this marks real progress toward quieter nights ahead.