[sustran] Re: Noise barriers

Dibu Sengupta dsengupta at gmail.com
Wed Nov 5 02:37:05 JST 2008


You can see FHWA's Highway Construction Noise Barrier Handbooks for ideas

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environMent/noise/handbook/index.htm

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/noise/manual.htm
Dibu
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On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Zvi Leve <zvi.leve at gmail.com> wrote:

> An Urban "Boulevard <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard>" may be a
> more
> realistic compromise than trying to minimize the impact of a highway.
> Boulevards typically include numerous interventions related to the
> "aesthetic" qualities of the facility (I know, how can one talk about road
> "aesthetics"?), and by definition boulevards are intended to accommodate
> many different types of road-user. Plus boulevards can even accommodate a
> measure of 'public space' which can even be dedicated to non-transportation
> related activities, such as vendors.
>
> We should all be wary of building more exclusively car-centric projects. It
> is doubly damaging when such projects are dropped into an existing
> multi-modal urban environment. Tearing places apart in order to more
> "efficiently" accommodate motorized vehicles is a very short-sighted
> development approach.
>
> Anyway... Good luck!
>
> Zvi
>
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory
> <edelman at greenidea.eu> wrote:
>
> > Morten Lange wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> > > * more "realistic" in the short run than banning cars  :-)
> > >
> > [...]
> >
> > THERE is no "short run" for a new or widened highway. Create this
> > monster under the conditions that its claws are filed, but it will be
> > alive a long time and will figure out a way to sharpen its claws.
> >
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> >
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> > CAR is over. If you want it.
> >
> > "Fort mit der Autostadt und was Neues hingebaut!"
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