Residents on both the east and west sides of the city say they live with intolerable traffic noise caused by highway construction projects and hope state officials can help. Two years ago, the state Department of Transportation embarked on a $500 million highway project to reconfigure the interchange of I-91, I-691 and Route 15 in Meriden to improve traffic flow and make it safer. Before the press conferences to announce the projects, workers cleared trees and brush in the buffers between the highway and the homes, and residents lost their noise barriers. Quinn recently introduced legislation asking the General Assembly to authorize CT DOT to install sound barriers eastbound on I-691 near the Steuben Street neighborhood, on I-91 southbound between the Middletown line and Exit 18, Preston Avenue, for residents on Thurrott Avenue. He estimates the total coverage to be about 1.5 to 2 miles and the cost between $1 million to $2 million per mile, depending on how it’s constructed. Noise barriers in those areas were not included in the state’s project.
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