 Sample letter to Highways Agency requesting quiet tarmac | downloads: 136 | type: doc | size: 24 kB |
| Background information about the Highways Agency and quiet tarmac | downloads: 142 | type: doc | size: 23 kB |
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Over the past 10 years or so the huge increase in traffic using the A69 has led to matching increases in the volume of noise affecting our daily lives.
Try a simple test.
Stand outside the Rat at midday on a weekday and absorb the noise levels. Come back 12 hours later at midnight and listen again. You'll be amazed that all you can hear is the roar of the Egger factory, relentlessly churning out 'cheap as chips' board.
Residents in Anick and Oakwood are subjected to this all day and all night. We are working hard (together with Tynedale Council) to encourage Egger to be a little more neighbourly (and quieter) but we believe that it's now time to persuade the Highways Agency, who are responsible for the maintenance of the A69 that they should take some steps to make their road a little quieter too.
Try another test.
Drive along the A69 from Bridge End roundabout at Hexham towards the Styford roundabout at Corbridge and listen very carefuly to the noise levels inside your car. Most of what you can hear (above wind noise) is the sound of the contact your tyres are making with the road surface. After a mile or so, you will pass Red House Farm on your left hand side and you'll see the signs for the A68 Stagshaw slip road. At about this point pay attention to the noise levels. You will see a visual change in the appearance of the road surface and at the same time a significant reduction in road transfer noise. This is the magic of quiet tarmac.
The Highways Agency are empowered to lay quiet tarmac when resurfacing trunk roads. We need to make sure that they will do so when the A69 is next resurfaced.
