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[BartBart]

I know someone who lives near the Midland line and you can hear them go past - although the line at that area is fairly high compared to the houses.

[Kelli]

Do they smell?

[BartBart]

electric trains smell? It is in the Mt Lawley area.

[Kelli]

. I lived on Wanneroo Road once, it was the smell that was most irritating, the noise wasn't an issue. In fact the convenience of stepping out of the house onto a bus to the city made it worthwhile. That's how I'd see the train as well, just not sure I'd take the chance of buying there though, rather permanent if you grow to not like it .

What does your friend say about the trains?

[BartBart]

She says that it is just the rattle of the trains late at night/early morning that is the issue. My place is on a semi-busy street and on the top of a hill. The noise of most cars is fine - it is just the occasional truck or loud motorbike that is annoying. (and the occasional Fri/Sat idiot doing burnouts and the occasional group of young people at 3am in the morning having people in a car record them riding down the hill on a skateboard). People can always double glaze windows if it is an issue though.

[Kelli]

Yeah, I get the odd hoons too, as long as they don't end up through a front wall...

That reminds me, there seems to be a bike group that buzzes the neighbourhood every month or so, they do two laps past then disappear. There is like dozens of road bikes, noisy. Does anyone know the story of them?

[BartBart]

I notice them come past my road very occasionally - but not for quite a while now you mention it. It isn't at an ungodly hour, so I don't mind it.

[Kelli]

They must have a suburb roster! Yeah I don't think it's even monthly, a couple of times a year maybe.

[Ultimate Hater]

Originally Posted by Kelli

That reminds me, there seems to be a bike group that buzzes the neighbourhood every month or so, they do two laps past then disappear. There is like dozens of road bikes, noisy. Does anyone know the story of them?

If it's been going for a few years, they come past me as well, and my friends houses in Mount Lawley and Coolbinia.

I guess it's just a standard monthly bike ride.

[Kelli]

Living in Bayswater I thought for years that it was bikies doing a run, was always too slow to run out and see. Quite surprised to see it was just ordinary citizens. Can't tell the difference between harleys and japanese bike noise evidently, was just loud.

Seems to be a reflection on the absolute dullness of the burbs, but it's quite exciting, I like random things that rattle up the place a bit. The icecream truck is another one .

[samboy]

Good to hear there's another sick person out there who likes train noise. I lived right on the line at St Leonards for a few years which needless to say is busier than most Perth stations. When I moved out, it felt really unpleasant not having any noise for a while.

[WCG]

I use to live right next to the West Leederville St. just before the trains went electric, the whole house use to vibrate when they went past lol! Got use to it though. Then the trains went electric, you could hear them, but it wasn't that bad, I didn't mind. The positives definitely out weighted the negatives!

[hack404]

Originally Posted by BartBart

I suspect people would quickly get sick of the train noise - especially late at night/early in the morning.

You get used to it pretty quickly or you don't.

[tayls84]

I live three house off a train line and I don't notice it one bit anymore. When guests sleep over they complain about the noise but you just get used to it. For the convenience of having the train right there it's definitely worth it.

Like a few of you have said above, it's when you get noise that you are not used to that you notice. For me it's the planes coming into land on runway 2 on the odd occasion there is a very strong north-easterly wind.

In saying all this I can see why being across the road from a train line would be an issue in selling the house.

[GAbE27]

my wife used to have the trainline that runs from Welshpool to Kwiana running right behind her house. when I would stay over I would be woken up at 3am by the sound and vibration of massive grain carriges roaring past!! would scary the fxck outta me!! haha

[Urbicus]

I live in the middle of South Perth and it's so quiet that the sound of a Hyundai Getz is enough to wake me up. That said, I find myself able to easily adapt to different conditions after a few days.

Originally Posted by tayls84

When guests sleep over they complain about the noise but you just get used to it.

[JWPJ]

You must be a really light sleeper... my phone's alarm was going off this morning right next to my head and still slept through it... If there's a fire I'm a goner.

[Kelli]

Maybe that is the difference whether you can hack it or not, I sleep like a log too.

[dallastexjr]

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-...-noongar-park/

Plan for 200ha Noongar park

Colleen Egan, The West Australian
Updated May 29, 2012, 2:50 am


The former Swan Valley Nyungar Community is inside a large swath of State-owned land earmarked for a bushy metropolitan park with a focus on indigenous culture.

State Cabinet has agreed on a concept for the 200ha parcel near Bennett Brook and Lockridge after a year-long consultation with Noongar families with links to the area.

The Korndin Kulluch "place of reconciliation" plan to be released today for an eight-week community consultation includes ideas for Aboriginal education, ecotourism and cultural buildings.

It proposes that some "culturally restricted areas" be preserved with limited access to protect significant heritage sites including burial and ceremonial spots.

If implemented, there would probably be moves to demolish the mud-brick houses on Lord Street known as "the camp".

This was where Noongar leader and paedophile Robert Bropho and his family lived in a gated community until an inquiry into sexual abuse there led the Gallop government to close it in 2003.

Bropho family members and supporters have camped illegally on the property for about two weeks and refused to move despite a police visit and a lack of power and water.

A group of Bropho descendants wants to move back into the camp, claiming its closure made women and children homeless, but both sides of politics have pledged to never reopen the community.

The community lost appeals to the Federal and High courts that claimed the eviction breached the Racial Discrimination Act. But the camp is a small part of the concept, which covers the 35ha former Pyrton disability hostel site and a big tract of land managed by Whiteman Park.

The property is also on a list of land that could be signed over to Noongar ownership through the $1 billion South West Native Title offer the Government and claimant groups are negotiating.

Finance Minister Simon O'Brien said final decisions were yet to be made on ownership, funding, heritage development and approvals.

"This plan is a vital step in establishing this important cultural site as a permanent and valuable community asset," Mr O'Brien said.

"It offers the opportunity for a substantial and meaningful act of reconciliation with Aboriginal people on land that is a significant element of their spiritual and ancestral heritage."
Planning Minister John Day said the Government had engaged in good faith with Noongar people who had cultural connections to the area by asking how they believed the land should be used.

[Dilaz89]

Originally Posted by GAbE27

my wife used to have the trainline that runs from Welshpool to Kwiana running right behind her house. when I would stay over I would be woken up at 3am by the sound and vibration of massive grain carriges roaring past!! would scary the fxck outta me!! haha

I used to live opposite that line as a kid and loved it when a train would go past. There's something really soothing about it.

I could live next to a train line no probs. Silence is overrated.