Highway sound walls help reduce the negative impacts of noise pollution caused by heavy traffic. But what are the strange ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recent study examining nearly 600,000 Florida homes found that reducing traffic noise through the construction of highway sound ...

Massachusetts is on the verge of becoming the first region in the United States to install solar panels on a highway noise barrier, according to a Jan. 25 statement from the Department of ...

Los Angeles is widely considered to be the home of the freeway. It’s also considered to be the home of the film industry. A fascinating story from Nate Berg over at Re-Form chronicles the way that two ...

With Interstates 495 and 95 converging together in our region, there's plenty of unwanted highway noise to go around. The noise serves as the background hum across a wide corridor of Greater ...

Federal and state rules require sound barriers in highway expansions that meet certain criteria. Engineers must show that a barrier would reduce noise by a noticeable amount — 5 decibels or more.

One and a half million dollars a mile. The cost of building a new lane on Interstate 95? Hardly — that’s more like $20 million. No, “$1.5 million dollars a mile” would be the cost of building new ...

In order to have a conversation in their backyards, Gladwin Drive residents have to shout to be heard. In their front yards? Don’t even bother. For almost three decades, residents in the Lionsview ...