[sustran] Re: Noise barriers

[Sujit Patwardhan]

The *BEST *noise barrier for congested areas of the city is the decision to
ban motorised traffic from the area. Prior to that it would help to be avoid
road widening (or keep it to a minimum only to help NMT), to avoid building
freeways and to absolutely ban any flyovers.

I'm saying this with complete seriousness as patchwork solutions never work,
but are often forced on traffic activists by planners/administrators who say
"the decision has already been taken and we can at best minimise the damage
(in this case noise)". This is like saying "suggest a good mask as we're
going to build a smoke belching factory right in the middle of this
residential area but we want to protect your lungs".

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Sujit








On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Debi Goenka <debi.cat at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi all
>
> I was wondering where I can find details of noise barriers required to be
> constructed along highways/freeways/flyovers, particularly in congested
> areas of cities.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers, warm regards
>
> Debi
>
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