You get a sense that downtown Tampa is emerging as a vibrant urban environment when people start to gripe about all the noise keeping them awake at night.
For decades the city center has been dissected by various railroad lines where trains are required by federal law to blare their horns as they cross street intersections.
It never used to be a problem since hardly anyone lived downtown. Indeed, the only real threat to a passing train was the prospect of a tumbleweed getting caught up in the machinery.