In fact there were noise barriers before, made of wood and sort-of green. They were much less obtrusive.

The concrete monstrosities are much more obvious, taller and placed higher.

Hopefully they will at least reduce the traffic roar for those with the Smith St Motorway in their backyards.

Someone told me that dealing with sound barrier 'engineers' was as difficult as dealing with traffic light 'engineers'. Enuf said!

Regards,

> On 19 Sep 2017, at 5:48 pm, Tony Gallowayarg@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

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> Having the contract to build all those ugly and useless “sound barriers” for the Qld department of transport must be a tidy little earner.

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> No barrier next to the motorway for years, but start running resilient wheeled trams beside it and the need for a Berlin Wall replica is urgent. What do they call the gap in it - Checkpoint Charlie ?

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> Tony G

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