LAX Soundproofing Measures Approved
Can you imagine what it must be like to live directly beneath the take-off and landing paths for a major international airport? Ask anyone living in the Los Angeles area and they’ll tell you exactly what it’s like. They’ll tell you (likely in more colorful terms) that living in the flight path of the Los Angeles International Airport is incredibly noisy.
Why you would purchase a home knowing it is in on the flight path is beyond us. What you’d do about it after finding out is another. The owners of 42 homes took it upon themselves to complain - and they got exactly what they were looking for.
On Tuesday, July 21st, 2009, the Board of Airport Commissioners approved a plan that would initiate a soundproofing project to protect all 42 homes beneath the flight path. The total price tag will be over $1.37 million and will include the insulation of extra-thick doors, soundproof windows, extra insulation, and whatever other soundproofing measures they deem necessary.
Kudos to the Board of Airport Commissioners for taking action to do what is right. No one should have to live with that kind of noise!