When you live in Okotoks at least once a day you can hear the train whistle cut through town.

Lara Grunow, assistant librarian at the Okotoks Public Library, says kids that are in the library will run to the window to see the train go by.

Grunow says the train whistle is a safety precaution and having no whistle at all would be dangerous.

"With how many accidents there are with people trying to get across the train tracks a shorter whistle would be safer."

Just across the train tracks is the Bow Valley Colleges Okotoks Campus.

While only night classes are running in the college at the moment, day classes will be starting in a few weeks.

June Diment, Foothills Regional Lead for Bow Valley College, says that while she's used to the whistle, others aren't.

"More often than not when I'm on the phone with colleagues they will be able to hear the whistle down the phone," Diment says.

Carol Bishop, owner of Boothill Gallery on Elizabeth Street which runs parallel to the tracks, says the whistle still catches her off guard.

"Especially when we're unloading furniture behind the store, I should be used to it by now but it still scares me."

All three agree that implementing a rule for a shorter whistle is a good idea.

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