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 ...

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 ...

While Beaconsfield residents surveyed overwhelmingly opted against paying a local improvement tax for a highway sound wall, many told council at Monday’s meeting that they still favour having a noise ...

When it comes to highway sound barriers, options are few and far between. For years, precast has remained the industry standard due, in large part, to lack of acceptable, cost-effective alternatives.

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.

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 ...

CLEVELAND (AP) — The soundproofing walls that increasingly line highways, especially in densely populated areas, often have a brooding look. But transportation planners are beginning to borrow an idea ...

New Jersey is getting out of the highway sound wall business for now. ''It is unfortunate, but for the foreseeable future, there will not be sufficient funds available to allow us to advance funding ...

When it comes to highway sound barriers, pre-cast concrete has remained the industry standard because of a lack of acceptable, cost-effective alternatives. However, the Pennsylvania Turnpike ...