NO LEADER to protect the health of 3,707 people north of the 20 ?
The Beaconsfield Polluted Corridor Initiative (BPCI) has launched a new petition initiative to study noise levels north of Highway 20.
At least 3,707 people are assaulted day and night by train noise, including 1,350 children. We are talking about almost 20% of the city’s population !!!
Normally, for such a segment of its population, the municipal administration should take the leadership to trigger at least the initial process of analysis, assessment and possible solutions.
However, this has not happened during the construction of these houses or since the transformation into a highway in the 1980s.
Nobody takes the side of these residents !!
43.1 In over 30 years, nobody at the City of Beaconsfield HAS TRIED TO PROTECT 3,450 residents to the north
The City of Beaconsfield has denied responsibility for noise from both sides of the A-20. The city has not attempted to resolve the noise issue on the north side:
43.2 The MTQ washed its hands of guilt
The MTQ recognized the high noise levels in 2010, but it quickly dissociated itself from the responsibility for the noise levels on the north side because it estimates that there is much more noise coming from rail traffic (four railroad tracks between the highway and Elm Street). So the MTQ has given up proposing and refuses to pay for noise mitigation on the north side.
43.3 Federal candidates are not active either
43.4 A petition to study the noise levels on the North side
This is why the BPCI launched the initiative of a new petition in favor of a study of these noise levels on the north side.
This study will make it possible to measure (finally) the issue, and then to find an effective solution for controlling railway noise on the north side.
We assume that it will be an acoustic barrier again. But let’s start by seriously studying the noise levels and the health of these residents.
All of the following will be contacted as soon as the petition has taken shape.
- The federal deputy
- The provincial deputy
- The Federal Minister of Transport
- The Provincial Minister of Transport
- Railway companies (CN, CP, AMT)
- The Montreal agglomeration administration
- The City of Beaconsfield administration.
The agglomeration is included because the installation of acoustic barriers will be on the bicycle path that it installed in 2017.