Austin Grabish traded in winter boots for a surfboard. He joined the ABC 10News team as a reporter in January 2023 after reporting for CBC, Canada's national public broadcaster, for six years.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The federal train regulator repeatedly warned the City of San Diego for almost a year that it would suspend the downtown quiet zone if the city didn’t come into compliance with safety requirements, documents obtained by Team 10 show.
The suspension of the zone in January forced freight and passenger trains to sound their horns for a minimum of 15 seconds every time they approached more than a dozen intersections downtown. “Every five, six, seven minutes randomly, it'll just be this obnoxious train horn that you can't even talk over or talk through,” he recalled.Emails obtained by Team 10 investigative reporter Austin Grabish through a public records request reveal a federal inspector emailed city traffic engineers at least eight different times in 2023.
The inspector finally took his concerns to Gloria in a July 2023 email and quickly got a response from engineers the same day who gave a list of work orders for maintenance that had been prepared.The Federal Railroad Administration suspended the quiet zone on January 17th triggering train horns to go off at all hours.
Federal Railroad Administration Todd Gloria Downtown San Diego Quiet Zone Train Horns
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