Noise
Are you going to the public meeting tonight about noise around the western loop? What, if anything, do you think the state DOT should do?
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It certainly sounds like there was some error by NCDOT in determining the noise levels for this section of the loop (reminder N&R it carries both I-40 and I-73). Whether this was due to a faulty design of the road or, as has been seen in other loop projects, an underestimation of the traffic using the highway, there's no reason residents with noise walls or without should be subject to it.
If trucks are the major noise problem, maybe, like for other US and NC routes, they could create a different route for trucks to take, perhaps using now Business 40 east to US 220 south back to the Loop. This would put trucks back on their former route but keep them out of the Death Valley area and back on the I-40/85 portion of the Loop which is not as developed and thus less susceptible to noise complaints.
Posted on May 22, 2008 4:33 PM