I agree. Certainly, if a railway track goes through a place and there are buildings 30 metres from there, we cannot free up a 300-metre space on either side of the track. But, it could perhaps be done in the case of new railway tracks.
No one lived in the areas around highways in the past, but, now, there are many houses there, and people are asking that noise-abatement walls be put up. It's the same thing for railways. There are railways that pass right through the centre of Montreal and there are houses nearby. What can you do? If a person has a house built near the railway track to be close to the station, that person must deal with the consequences. There aren't only advantages to that, but disadvantages as well. What do you think about that?