Public Information Transcripts - Whittier Bridge/I-95 Improvement ...

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noise mitigation measures per MassDOT’s costeffectiveness
guidelines in dealing with those issues.
And that has a lot more study to go through, but we
are working on those concerns.
There have been questions about what
are we doing about the noise issues. I think
specifically there was a question from a gentleman in
Amesbury, I think on the Amesbury Point area, talking
about the bridge noise. One thing about the bridge,
the new bridge will not make the type of banging noise
that you get there today. The new bridges are
continuous span structures. They don’t have the open
expansion joints in them that a pier by pier
relationship, which actually picks up a lot of the
noise, especially at night, of a heavy truck going
down. So, we believe just the new structure itself
will be quieter, never mind the other issues of
dealing with the roadway noises.
In terms of the environmental
documentation, we’ve been looking at the affected
environment of the study area, quantified and under
development. We have engineering studies. We have
environmental analysis that we’re working on, and also
the environmental consequences of the proposed action.
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