EASTLEIGH MP CALLS FOR ACTION ON MOTORWAY NOISE (Eastleigh Liberal Democrats)

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EASTLEIGH MP CALLS FOR ACTION ON MOTORWAY NOISE

October 30, 2009 9:24 AM

Chris Huhne MP and Councillor Bruce Tennant examining the problem of motorway noise Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne has pressed the Department of Transport to speed up the resurfacing of the M3 and M27 with low-noise tarmac following new evidence of the impact of noise.

Mr Huhne points to the Department of Environment's noise mapping which shows large numbers of residents now suffering more than 75 decibels of noise due to traffic on the local motorways.

"This problem is not going away, and the Department of Transport owes it to local residents to come clean over the likely timescale for the scheme.

"Traffic continues to grow, and this merely increases the noise due to the old concrete surfaces and the noisy join between them which leads to a clunk-clunk as heavy goods vehicles pass over.

"I have appealed to the Department to use the savings made on the recent widening scheme, but if that is rejected then ministers should at least say when the resurfacing will happen."