For the last 30 min or so a larger airplane has been circling downtown EC area. I thought maybe they were waiting to land but after the 4th circling, I’m not sure what’s going on. Are candidates all in town?
Costco is not the only retailer to have them, but I would like it if a membership could give a member a shopping experience that does NOT involve getting hit with the sales people soliciting members on their current cell providers. Every.damn.time. It really makes for an unpleasant shopping experience!
We’ve lived in our house for 20 years, and are located along the i94 corridor in Eau Claire. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to enjoy the windows open (at bedtime) due to the heavy traffic noise on 94. EC area is along the stretch of Minneapolis-Chicago corridor and in our area alone, we have several major distribution centers (Amazon warehouse, many for Menards, Walmart DC, Andersen Windows - just to name a few).
I’ve been awake since 2am due to the noise (we had our windows closed) and figured I’ll take this time to figure out how to get those noise barriers added to our stretch of 94.
Upon digging into this, my understanding is that noise barriers cannot be requested, but rather are considered during part of a type 1 DOT project.
I found an email of a person at the DOT headquarters in Green Bay and send them an email to please (please!) have a noise study done for our area. In case the emails go into the abyss, if any of you have a connection to DOT or could do anything to help us out getting noise barriers constructed, I’d be forever grateful!
I’ll attempt to attach a video I took at 5am (but it’s this loud all.night.long!) to give an idea of how loud it is - and, we have several streets and houses between us and 94, so it’s not like it really is in our backyard. I can imagine how much worse it has to be for people who live closer!