If the residents threaten ' to resort to action' if the council does not address the problem within 14 days time, the residents will make a rally regarding of the issue not being taken into action. They would want to show the society that does not live in that area that the council does nothing to find a solution in their issue. This is the answer
They went to the railroad stations and bought tickets for the fast trains and the slow trains and even the trains that back up and run backward instead of where they start to go.