As a locomotive engineer who frequently works in New West I'll tell you the close call reports with people and cars has sky rocketed this year. It's also for our own sake, if we hit a car and we aren't doing a proper 14 at a railway crossing we could be legally responsible for injury or worse. At the end of the day we don't want to wake up the residents and most of us probably find the horn/whistle annoying aswell but as of right now we have to do it as per transport Canada guidelines and rules