Urban Loop II

Planners get earful on loop noise

 

Residents near the western Urban Loop gave transportation planners an earful about the new road's incessant noise…

 

Loop neighbor Ron Frazier said he was speaking for "over 300 neighbors" whose lives have been turned upside down by the noise and the lack of meaningful help from either state or local officials. "Some of them have to sleep with the TV on all night or with earplugs."

 

…DOT…is limited by federal highway regulations in what it can do about noise issues, said Mike Mills, DOT's division engineer for the Greensboro area.

 

Greensboro Councilwoman Sandra Anderson Groat asked if the issue should be DOT's alone: "Do we not at the City Council have a responsibility to these taxpaying citizens?"

 

Told the city had agreed to provide landscaping beyond what DOT can furnish along the route, she said that didn't sound like enough.

 

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Greensboro News and Record