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Originally Posted by merrymini
Sound barriers are usually built when a new road or highway is put in AFTER houses are already built. If you build a house near an existing highway, they should not be required to build a sound wall and it would be at their discretion. To expect the state to spend millions of dollars on sound walls to accommodate people bothered by noise is absurd. You knew the road was there when you bought the house.
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Seems to be all sorts of opinions. Don Wiley thinks since they are expanding to 8 lanes, they will put in a barrier. Someone else posted that any new expansions requires sound barriers. But I doubt that is true or Don would have known that.
As far as sound being louder due to widening. Hmm, I don't expect more traffic. Just better accomodation of the current traffic. But new pavement seems to always be quieter than old stuff so maybe that will help.